That You Might Know

The Root of Complaining is Selfishness...Anybody Have an Axe?
Can life get any faster? As I was watching my oldest run around yesterday, I was struck by how big he is. How old he is. I felt my chest start to tighten and breathing was just a little bit more difficult as I told myself not to blink because that's how quick the next 8 years will go. Sometimes I think that I need a kick in the pants like that. I need to see clearly that time is really the most precious thing I have with my children and that it can never be reclaimed. That realization helps me to suck it up and do what I need to do. To set aside my wants and desires. To realize that this season is short.Because it is.We live in a culture tha

Puritan Work Ethic. . .Wow!
My friend Kelli, posted this link on Facebook. It is a fabulous article and I highly recommend reading it. It renewed my passion to instill in my children the joy of hard work.Puritan Advice

If I wait for divine inspiration for a title to the post, I will be sitting her until next Thanksgiv
I am so thankful that I can look back at my blog and see what we were doing last Christmas. Because without a written account, I assure you that I would not remember a single thing. In fact, just perusing my archives has inspired me to blog again. There is something very nifty about looking back over the passage of time and seeing my thoughts in black and white. OK, cream and red, but you know what I mean.School is going supremely well. The other day, I was driving with my eldest in the car and he confessed to me that he had not been looking forward to studying

Bitin' The Bullet
This is the very first sentence of what is sure to be a long and rambling post about nothing. There. Now that I have the dreaded first sentence out of the way, maybe I can put together a blog post. I have been blogging for 5 years. I know that these periods come and go when I don't blog. No big deal. But this time...Here are my thoughts on blogging lately.1. I love to write. I have since I was 11. That was the year that I took journalism as an elective I was convinced that I was going to become a famous author or journalist. Why was I so convinced? Because, as every good 6th grade journalism teacher should do, mine was very forthcoming with her praise. I remember thi

Who Knew?
Number One has become very interested in the Periodic Table. So much so, that he is contemplating going into the field of science (yea!!). I can see his brain working as he looks at those spots labeled Undiscovered. He asked if we could find a list of items and the elements that they contained on the internet. Well, we tried, but nothing really came close to what he was looking for. So you can imagine my excitement when I found this lurking on our school shelf in the basement.