31 Pages from my Journal

I did it. I shared 31 pages from my journal–31 days of basically writing to myself and now I can finally address you guys. Here’s what I did: I blogged…

It occurred to me a couple weeks ago that I didn’t really have to deal with all this.  I homeschool.  I don’t have a 9-5.  If we have mice and…

Yesterday I read a blog post about setting four little goals to work at before the new year.  I think this is a great idea.  These are mine: 1. This…

Yesterday, I had an earth shattering conversation with my friend.  I mean, as in mentally earth shattering…as far as phone conversations go. We talk almost every day and our conversations…

Today I went to the mall.  Some days the mall makes me feel like becoming a hermit, but today it helped. Things aren’t exactly going my way right now-but I…

We had a great day yesterday.  Vera had slept really poorly Friday night, so all day yesterday we just laid around, per my request.  We went to the park for…

Yesterday I failed.  I lost it.  The happy face ungracefully fell of and revealed the ugly stressed out face I try to save for when the kids are not around. …

    Some people have said that going home next week for a visit is just what I need.    It will be fun, yes.  I’m excited to see everyone…

There always seems to be a list of things on my mind–to do’s or coming up’s or just plain stuff that needs some mental hashing over.  Right now seems to…

I woke up today before my alarm, not in an annoying way at like 3am, but just a comfortable 15 minutes before the bell. {thankful} The first thing I realized was…

After trying several times to buy a house and nothing panning out, when we made the decision to rent for another year, I was excited about it. I really was. …

This weekend is opening pheasant season in my home town.  It might not mean anything to anyone else in the country, but there? There its like a national holiday.  Before…

I woke up really early this morning full of anxiety.  Its over all things that I know will sort themselves out, but anxiety nonetheless. This isn’t the exact quote that…

Yesterday was busy. Everyday is busy.  Somewhere in the middle, probably the two hours I spent in the kitchen yesterday afternoon, I began to make notes to myself for next October:…

On our way to Awana last night Sophie was practicing her scripture.  Over and over she’s repeating: “For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles are just one point…

Today marks three weeks of no mice sitings and no evidence of mice.  Glory! Supposedly in mice facts, this is important because their breeding cycle is three weeks, so if…

Its October 15th already and the month is half over. I have always loved this time of year.  Always loved the holidays. Waited and planned and anticipated from August on. …