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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

share the good

The statistics are staggering. The world is a mess. Bad stuff happens a lot. True. True. True. But also. There are good people too. Kind people. Friends who pick up…

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Book Reviews, HomeLife, Otto Fox Wilder

five finds. on a friday. (eyelashes. chicken pot pie. basketball.)

Monday seems like a very long time ago. Was it? Maybe. funny It’s getting more and more difficult to have a nightly family read aloud time.  But mostly I keep…

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HomeSchooling, Product Review

Latin Everywhere, Everyday: A Timberdoodle Review

First, can we all just agree that it’s a ludicrous system we’ve all created and sustained that we should think about or plan for the NEXT year of homeschool during…

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  • Framily,  HomeLife

    night time at the farm.

    / July 13, 2015

    There’s always a part of every July Fourth that leaves me feeling more whole than broken, more established than misplaced. The fireworks lighting up the sky. The sameness of tradition and wonder. The lovely simplicity of this beautiful porch where the only view is green and trees and a river’s edge. And then there are the quiet quiet moments. Long…

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    five finds friday: “as long as we’ve got each other”

    August 9, 2019

    five finds friday. (apple season is the best. and more.)

    August 16, 2019

    The Nomadic Professor: A Timberdoodle Review

    December 15, 2022
  • Framily,  HomeLife

    jiggety jig

    / July 10, 2015

    The Virginia mountains were in my rearview mirror all day today. The sun was shining.  The clouds were white.  The sky was bright. It was a good day for a drive. A couple of the kids were glad to be home.  A couple wanted to stay in Virginia forever. I guess I am glad to have predictable internet back, but I…

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    thoughts. on this fragile world.

    April 16, 2019

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

    September 23, 2019

    Five Finds Friday (a new look, a story that stands the test of time, a t-shirt London designed)

    May 15, 2020
  • Field Trip,  Framily

    bewildered in the best sort of way.

    / July 7, 2015

    Daniel Boone is quoted as saying, I have never been lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. I hear you Dan’l.  I hear you. Virginia. She’s a beauty. But she’ll rip a hole in your schedule and shift your plans and change your days. And all you’ll do is ride the wave and adjust accordingly. (And not even…

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    five finds friday (what do you wear with leggings?)

    December 11, 2020

    five finds friday (the best popcorn, a great sermon, ear cuffs and we need a new funny show)

    July 19, 2019

    A Reason for Handwriting: A Timberdoodle Review

    April 15, 2019
  • Field Trip,  Framily,  HomeLife

    Gray Mountain Farm

    / July 3, 2015

    You guys. We are at the farm. The beautiful lovely Virginia farm. Where the mountains ensconce you and the framily embraces you and the mosquitoes bite you and the wireless signal evades you and the Internet still doesn’t trespass onto the property. So I just can’t easily share the good life we are living on these gorgeous acres across the…

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    the burrow: a dining room tour

    May 15, 2019

    Guatemala: Day One

    March 1, 2023

    five finds friday (freckles, strawberries, plants)

    April 19, 2019
  • God's Pursuit of Me,  HomeLife

    the sign for my forehead

    / June 30, 2015

    And I want to say – I am not the person I used to be. I want it printed on a t-shirt – no, a sign on my forehead in Sharpie or something. (Maybe another tattoo Dad?) I want everyone to know. This life has changed me. The past year my life and emotions and thoughts and actions have shifted…

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    five finds friday (there’s beautiful bags and blast from the past soda and kind students)

    April 24, 2020

    This Age.

    November 15, 2022

    weekend ramble. (a weekend both peaceful & productive)

    September 28, 2020
  • God's Pursuit of Me

    the fact that it passes

    / June 29, 2015

    My hands shake sometimes when I type. They shake with the fears that still rise and fall with some of my heart beats. (But not all of them.) They shake when my phone lights up with a troublesome text or when I run into a person I haven’t seen in many months and their expression reminds me that they know…

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    weekend ramble (break week is over, we threw axes, I want the sunshine to stay)

    February 25, 2019

    Songs for Singin’: A Long Winded Okee Dokee Brothers Review & Tribute

    May 26, 2020

    according to the schedule, there’s no space for that

    January 16, 2019
  • HomeLife,  Otto Fox Wilder,  Piper Finn Willow

    swimmers!

    / June 26, 2015

    Have you ever wanted to cry when you saw your children accomplish something that seemed kind of almost impossible to you but then as you watched them do it you were kind of in awe at their ability and you wondered why you had never expected them to do that before? This week.  Swim lessons. That was me. I don’t…

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    connections. relationships. education.

    April 20, 2020

    here we go …

    February 3, 2023

    hi.

    December 18, 2019
  • HomeLife,  Keiglets

    my people

    / June 25, 2015

    Every night we gather in our living room. Bodies piled on every surface in that small space. Arms linked. Feet resting on someone else’s legs. Heads on a sibling’s shoulder. We take up each other’s space. Animal sighting and outdoor adventures are jotted down in our Nature Notes for that day.  We record happy bits of our lives in our…

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    When Buying Local Is So Cute

    May 5, 2020

    teens. parenting them.

    December 30, 2020

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  • Field Trip

    a night out

    / June 24, 2015

    I think it was high school. And it was because of my older brother Danny. I heard this band called the Indigo Girls. I have loved, admired, respected their music ever since. Two women who sing with such incredibly beautiful harmony.  And their lyrics.  My word – their lyrics have been defining bits and pieces of my life for more…

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    The July Grove Collaborative Giveaway

    July 11, 2017

    five finds friday (ukuleles & queso)

    January 10, 2020

    This Age.

    November 15, 2022
  • HomeLife,  Low to No Revolution,  Piper Finn Willow

    what to give a seven year old for her birthday

    / June 23, 2015

    Knowing that our little friend Hanna was leaving the country soon made the choice of a birthday gift harder than usual. No one wants to receive a toy you can only play with for a month or two before you have to give it away or sell it at a yard sale. And there just isn’t room in the limited…

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    sacred sabbath & rest for the weary

    September 9, 2019

    close to midnight/ sisters

    July 29, 2019

    five finds friday (superstore, fly fishing, sloppy joes)

    January 3, 2020
  • HomeLife

    all the writing I can muster.

    / June 22, 2015

    Sometimes I’ve got something to say. And sometimes I am tired and ideas are slow and my typing is riddled with sloppy left pinkies and uncooperative right middle fingers. And that’s when you get these posts that are part confessional and part ramble and part junior high dear diary and part Christmas newsletter and part nonsensical. So here I am.…

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    five finds friday (superstore, fly fishing, sloppy joes)

    January 3, 2020

    notes from the burrow. not in any particular order.

    March 25, 2020

    five finds friday. (homemade board games, babies & Bergen)

    July 3, 2020
  • Bergen Hawkeye

    post 9,429

    / June 19, 2015

    A large collection of beautiful seashells were being explored by the fellas as we helped Hilary pack up a few things from her home.   For some reason the beautiful shells created quite a hubbub with the boys and a lot of silly banter. And the jokes were a-plenty. (And, actually, pretty funny.  Which means either I have a humorous…

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    Five Finds Friday.

    September 4, 2020

    my social dilemma

    September 16, 2020

    five finds friday (superstore, fly fishing, sloppy joes)

    January 3, 2020
  • God's Pursuit of Me,  HomeLife

    still watching sleeping heads.

    / June 18, 2015

    I watch kids sleep as much now as I did when they were babies. In those infant days I was checking for breathing. Hovering over their bitty heads and listening for breath sounds. Staring with sleepy eyes at their itty chests to see if I could notice the tiny rise and fall of breaths taken in and breaths breathed out.…

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    five finds friday (what do you wear with leggings?)

    December 11, 2020

    back of a book, on the porch

    October 2, 2019

    This Age.

    November 15, 2022
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