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I’ve been getting a lot of questions asking how I am doing since our foster kids have left so here’s a bit of an update. Also check …
I thought I would share a bonus video this week with a bit of a fostering update. Plus, I’m sharing a few of my favorite fiction books that have foster care themes. We’ve been fostering for just over a year and a half right now and all of my other updates have been via blog…
Around here I am currently . . . Listening to . . . this podcast with Tsh Oxenreider and Susan Wise Bauer, two amazing writers. Tsh wrote Notes from a Blue Bike (loved!) and Susan Wise Bauer wrote A Well-Trained Mind which I started last week. Thinking about . . . thanks to the above podcast…
Every year I like to create a list of independent reads for my daughter (and will do the same for my son once he is reading on his own). She never reads every book on the list but I enjoy making it nonetheless. My main goal of the independent reading list is to push her…
This has been a good year for read alouds in our home. We’ve re-read a few of our favorites and found some new favorites! If you’ve been here for awhile you’ll probably already know that when I say “read aloud” 90% of the time I mean “audiobook”. For us that works best, we mostly like…
Welcome to podcast episode 3 where we talk about craving rest and solitude vs. isolation.
For the last month and a half I’ve been on a mission that I have dubbed: The Great Purge of 2014. When the new year dawned it was like something woke up inside me and I realized just how much stuff I have! How did I accumulate this? And, more importantly, why am I keeping it?…
