“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice…in Wonderland
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Beyond pizza
The biggest drawback to homeschooling all year is that it does cut down on long, lazy hours of summer reading. But we do have extra time, and summer reading programs available encourage kids to spend some of that time reading when they’d rather be swimming or running through the neighborhood like little barbarians. Yes, we’re […]
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Terrible Tuesday: Spring Cleaning
Day two of spring cleaning continues apace. Today we conquer the front garden beds and try to repair the some of the damage from our plumbing conundrum last week. Fortunately, it’s a nice day for it. Shiny clean and organized links! Spaced-Out Challenge Messier Guide, Part 2. Beautiful: Reaching my autistic son through Disney. Woohoo! […]
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Empty Shelf Challenge: On Basilisk Station
My fourth book for the Empty Shelf Challenge is not part of the mother-daughter book club. Oddly, I chose this sci-fi tale because of Beth Moore. What? Beth Moore, the bible study lady? Yes, that Beth Moore. I was feeling guilty about downloading a bunch of free kindle books that she was offering on Amazon […]
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Empty Shelf Challenge: Crazy Love
The third book on my shelf is another book for the Mother-Daughter book club/project/thing* I’m doing with my daughters. I really need to finish some of the others or this shelf will be all about them. Which I guess wouldn’t be a bad thing. Before I get to the book, I thought I’d back up […]
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Empty Shelf Challenge: Joni, An Unforgettable Story
Title: Joni: An Unforgettable Story Author: Joni Eareckson Tada What’s it about: The autobiography of a woman who became a quadriplegic at 17, focusing on her faith journey. Why did I read it: This is the second book in the book project I’m doing with my girls. I’m going to add a healthy dose of […]
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Empty Shelf: Questions and conundrums
*This post contains affiliated links. I’ve only finished one book for my Empty Shelf Challenge thus far, which seems kind of lame, especially considering that I read all the time. Really, I do! But most of my reading is either non-book or books that probably don’t qualify for the shelf. Sometimes I’m researching for my […]
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Empty Shelf Challenge: Do Hard Things
I’ve finished my first book for the Empty Shelf Challenge. The challenge is to shelve the books you finish between December 24 and the end of this year, not those you start and finish, fortunately. I started this book a while back. I’m reading it with my daughters, and we’ve been hard-pressed to find […]
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Resolution season approaches!
We’re approaching the season of resolutions and challenges. Gyms are running deals, diet programs are buying extra ad time, self-help/life coaches/ and gurus are gearing up for the season of building a better you. At least for January. I like the idea of resolutions, but frankly, New Year’s resolutions do it all wrong. Most of […]
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College prep?
This post is a little insight to how my mind works, so this is your chance to turn away. I saw these three things at about the same time: Mike Rowe has a new initiative called Profoundly Disconnected that is part of his continuing effort to encourage work in general and the trades specifically. It’s […]
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Failed analogy
On our way to church yesterday, Bulldozer was reading through his memory verse with quite a bit of help. This led to a comment from Satchmo about how reading is too hard. Seizing this teachable moment, I talk about how reading is the key that unlocks all the stories. Just like it was hard for […]
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