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Ordinary work, which is what most of us do most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary. All work done for God is spiritual work and therefore not merely a duty but a holy privilege.
- Elisabeth Elliot

HomeLife, Product Review

my social dilemma

These kids I live with always want to watch movies. Always. But the movies they choose are primarily veneer, shiny, high dollar sort of films. On their own, it seems…

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HomeLife, Keigley Approved Recipes

five finds friday (oatmeal cream pies & a little explaining about “that” photo)

You think those baby and toddler years FLY by? Good grief, so do these high school ones. Everything I see is in fast forward. funny Laughing is my favorite hobby.…

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HomeLife

parenting reminds me I need Jesus

I wish that I had a couple lives to live. Maybe then there would be enough time to learn from my mistakes. To change the course. To turn the tide.…

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  • HomeLife

    A Grove Giveaway – those incredible smells!

    / November 17, 2016

      I feel like I JUST finished a fabulous Grove Collaborative giveaway and it’s already time for another one! (That’s the kind of time flying that feels acceptable to me – from one giveaway to another!)     This is another really fantastic (and delicious smelling) giveaway.  These soaps also make wonderful Christmas gifts or hostess gifts.  It’s just nice…

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    five finds friday (a long winded run down of yesterday and white chicken chili and student success)

    March 22, 2019

    from the cabin: Bergen Hawkeye at Lost Valley

    June 25, 2019

    My Friend Mary & The Beauty of Showing Up

    April 23, 2019
  • HomeLife

    Jump In: A Workbook for Reluctant & Eager Writers – A Timberdoodle Review

    / November 16, 2016

      My favorite way to teach good writing to junior high students is through good reading.  I love to incorporate narration from the novels the kids are reading and to have them grow accustomed to reading well written words, which, in turn, hopefully leads them to writing well written words of their own. But sometimes it’s also really helpful to…

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    Guatemala: Day Two

    March 8, 2023

    weekend ramble (soccer starts & the sun is back)

    March 11, 2019

    today. (teens are wonderful wonderful too – PSA)

    July 28, 2021
  • HomeLife,  Story

    Draw Your Own Conclusions: the hot water heater in my kitchen

    / November 15, 2016

      There is an ugly hot water heater that sits in the corner of my kitchen.  You can’t move it.  It’s giant and I can’t rearrange it to find a spot in another corner or hidden from view.  It has to be there. Five years – maybe six – we’ve lived here. In those years I have draped ten or…

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    the weekend ramble (it’s back)

    July 27, 2020

    parenting advice: for you & me

    April 1, 2021

    going dark . . .

    June 24, 2019
  • HomeLife

    Lost and Found : one decade down

    / November 14, 2016

      It always happens in the shower. That’s when I find myself revisiting memories and thinking about things I didn’t even know I was thinking about. Ten years ago. A decade. Ten years ago my life looked very different.  For that matter, my shower looked different too!  For one – we had two of them. (What a gift, people – TWO…

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    The Right Word.

    July 20, 2021

    five finds friday (freckles, strawberries, plants)

    April 19, 2019

    teens. parenting them.

    December 30, 2020
  • HomeLife

    Five Finds Friday (stopping to smell the roses)

    / November 11, 2016

      Well this week was a long one – eh?     FUNNY   I don’t know you guys.  Lots of funny things happened this week at our house.  Lots of non-funny things happened too.  We laugh a lot here.  We read poems to make us laugh – Shel Silverstein is still a favorite.  We have a billion and two…

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    oh, the month ahead. and the month now.

    April 28, 2023

    Five Finds Friday (a lot of Otto and a little about a pipe bursting, also a bit about grilled cheese sandwiches)

    March 8, 2019

    going dark . . .

    June 24, 2019
  • Chaos,  Free,  God's Pursuit of Me,  HomeLife,  Story

    divorce diaries. entry 5.

    / November 10, 2016

      I’ve almost forgotten what the routine Used To Be. Almost forgotten what it was like to grocery shop with a partner.  The Divide and The Conquer. I’ve kind of grown accustomed to being The Only One. Some days it almost feels as if there never was a Before.  (Some days.) Some days I just groove and strut along and…

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    Q Bitz Solo: A Timberdoodle Review

    April 14, 2021

    a little this, a little that

    October 7, 2020

    Latin Everywhere, Everyday: A Timberdoodle Review

    January 30, 2019
  • HomeSchooling,  Product Review

    Kid Coder: A Timberdoodle Review

    / November 9, 2016

      KidCoder is a complete program sold by Timberdoodle that offers an online web design course. The target age for KidCoder is 4th grade and up and it comes as part of the 8th grade curriculum if you prefer to order your curriculum whole. This summer I had London, my eighth grader, begin the KidCoder course, knowing that this review…

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    connections. relationships. education.

    April 20, 2020

    just recounting a day . . .

    June 20, 2017
  • HomeLife

    the post where I compare myself to a toad (kind of)

    / November 8, 2016

      Outside of our dining room window sits a dilapidated old bird house.  It’s kind of awesome and it’s kind of broken.  (You guys, my whole house is a metaphor for my whole life – wouldn’t you know it?) Yesterday, while we were eating brunch (which we only officially do on Sundays and, by the way, I made sausage and…

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    Five Finds Friday (a whole lot of photos)

    November 6, 2020

    Five Finds Friday (boots, of course, and pretty drinks and a book update)

    August 6, 2021

    Scrunch Map: A Timberdoodle Review

    April 21, 2021
  • Story

    kindness is contagious

    / November 7, 2016

      I am not certain about all that many things in life. (It’s such a shifting world.  Off balance and out of kilter by mid-morning most days.) But I do know this: We have a bounty of friends much kinder than we deserve to have. It’s a special kind of lovely to come home to an empty house after a…

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    leaving colorado.

    June 16, 2020

    Colorku: A Timberdoodle Review

    December 4, 2019

    five finds friday: Dickens and Twists and a cake baker and a cuddler

    February 15, 2019
  • HomeLife

    Five Finds Friday (beach version – of course)

    / November 4, 2016

      This week went by with a splash and a wave.  (Get it?)     FUNNY   Why is it that asking a bunch of kids to pose for a photo feels like punishment to them?       FASHIONABLE   Beach towns love their outlet malls. We hopped on over to one for a few wild minutes and saw…

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    How We Are All Connected: Navigators. Glen Eyrie. My Mother. Me. My Sons.

    September 23, 2019

    try this at home

    April 7, 2020

    a rearranging addiction: or a story of two trunks & a TV

    July 10, 2017
  • Field Trip

    wednesday by the water

    / November 3, 2016

      The fact that it is November is shocking to me. What is happening to the days?  The years?  All of it!! Also.  My children went swimming today.  In November.  That feels crazy. We carry our Nature Notes with us on our adventures and today was so slam-packed full of nature happenings that our November 2 notecard is now full; we…

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    five finds friday (a long winded run down of yesterday and white chicken chili and student success)

    March 22, 2019

    share the good

    October 24, 2019

    five finds friday: dutch babies & my babies all grown

    December 2, 2022
  • Field Trip,  HomeSchooling

    two days. two stories.

    / November 2, 2016

      Yesterday I dropped my phone. On a rock. Without a case. It’s my own fault.  I like the phone case-less.  I’ve been warned. One bazillion and three times by friends and family and strangers.  “Get a case,” they said.  “It’s too big of a risk,” they said.  I’ve had a case handed to me actually.  I put it on…

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    she’s right, he knows her name.

    December 3, 2019

    five finds friday – (Congaree, more soup, another Otto saying & sunshine)

    April 12, 2019

    five finds friday (college talk, meeting the Okee Dokee Brothers)

    October 11, 2019
  • London Eli Scout

    scout. a poem to her.

    / November 1, 2016

      She wears gray Chuck Taylors and dull colored hoodies.     She’s always buttoned down and smoothed over and tidy, but she’s never showy, and the shiniest thing she’s ever owned are the brand new sparkling diamond earrings she’s only recently acquired. She laughs easily but seldom loudly or exuberantly. When you catch a glimpse of silly or tear-producing…

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    she’s right, he knows her name.

    December 3, 2019

    These Is My Words: A Book Review

    November 4, 2019

    try this at home

    April 7, 2020
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