My Good List: Homeschool Edition

With the world all sorts of crazy right now, it’s helpful to step away from the madness in order to reflect on and appreciate some of life’s sweetness. I have enjoyed embracing ...

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Banking Extra Minutes

A while back, I came across a description of motherhood as “one long goodbye.” Though I no longer recall the source of that quote, it’s stuck with me and is something I ...

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Conquering Boredom With Daily Challenge Boards

These past couple of months have been incredibly hard for so many. I can’t pretend to understand or relate to the trials some families and individuals are facing, from jobs lost to ...

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There Is No Fear In Love

Edited to Add: I wrote this post a couple of weeks ago, when the coronavirus wasn’t even on my radar, and before our world became crippled by fear. I don’t think it’s ...

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Fifteen Things I Learned This Winter

I’m coming up on my seventh blogiversary in a few months, and while there have been many things to love about blogging, my favorite is the way that it has prompted me ...

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Doing What’s Mine to Do

If the internet is to be believed, I am utterly failing as a mother. I’m not serving my child homemade, organic foods cut into cute shapes at every meal. We’ve never taken ...

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Nine Things I Learned in July {2019}

I recently heard the Socrates quote, “The unexamined life is not worth living,” and I instantly knew that I had a new life mantra (to add to my vast library of life ...

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Charleston Michael // Half Way to Five!

It seems like just last week that we celebrated Charleston’s fourth birthday, but here we are, six months later, and as of yesterday my baby is closer to five than four. Our ...

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June’s Featured Book Review: Parenting the Wholehearted Child

As every mom and dad knows, this parenting business is no easy feat. Being Charleston’s mother is the most wonderful, natural thing I have ever done, but it is also the most ...

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To Charleston Michael on His Fourth Birthday

Throughout Charleston’s first year, I posted monthly letters to him documenting every change, milestone, and highlight. I still write him monthly letters in the pages of my journal (totally crazy, I know, ...

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