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Dec 10 2012

*UPDATED* Congrats, Katie W.! You won this giveaway! I’ll be in touch with you soon!! I once read a blog post that offered guidelines on how frequently to vacuum each room in your house. It was suggested that you vacuum based on the number of people who use the room. Example: Our bedroom should be vacuumed twice each week because…

Dec 05 2012

The month of December turns into crazy town around here. Is it the same for you? I try really hard every year to find meaningful ways to stay focused in the midst of the Christmas chaos and one of my main goals is to get Christmas shopping out of the way. It has a tendency to take over, and I…

Dec 04 2012

I don’t know the answer to that equation. I’m an English girl, not a math girl. All I know is that it’s dangerously close to Christmas and I’m just now having a chance to post the amusement from Halloween. Some of that has to do with the fact that I thought I lost my entire blog and all of my…

Nov 14 2012

Today is a hard day. It’s a “world is crashing down around me” kind of day for some of our sweet ones. It’s a heavy heart kind of day for me. Today’s a hard day and I’m reminded that LIFE is hard. The enemy is out to destroy and sometimes I just shake my head and fling tears all over…

Oct 12 2012

Yeaaaaah, it wasn’t quite that intense. It did feel that way to my brain that gets too easily tangled up in our culture, though. Or expectations of others. Or my interpretation of expectations of others. Wanna know what I did?? I showed up to the Parents’ Coffee (that I was helping to coordinate) at the kids’ preschool … empty handed….