A few weeks ago, I ordered some amazing new Noonday products through Lisa that I was super excited about. I stalked my email notification from UPS letting me know the ship dates and tracking information. When I finally got the ship date, I was thrilled. When the 'delivered' notice came through, it ...
What I Learned in August
My soul is not made for hustle. I blogged about this a few weeks ago and explained my mantra for dealing with the hustle when it can't be avoided. I like books written from different points of view. In A Sweethaven Summer, my August #Collaboreads pick, each chapter was from a different ...
#Collaboreads: A Sweethaven Summer
I missed the July #Collaboreads link-up with Mr. Thomas and Me and Rachel A Dawson, but I'm back this month with another book to share with you. This month's topic was a book set during the summertime. I was scrolling through Instagram the day I read Rachel and Amber's ...
Our American Flag
I am a very emotional person, but not many things make me cry. On the short list of things that do are my kids growing up, issues of injustice, and any act of patriotism. (Those soldier-coming-home-surprise videos get me every single time!). So you can imagine the mess I was ...
The Adventures of Learning Spanish, Part 1
You guys, this is going to be fun(ny), I can already tell. My Rosetta Stone CD only arrived yesterday and already I know. Let me give you some backstory. I took two years of Spanish in high school. I have worked for eight years in a school with a very high (40%) population of Spanish speaking ...
Simply Tuesday
And just like that, we've gone from loosey-goosey summer to the full on hustle of a school year. School day, soccer practice, piano lessons, gymnastics. Throw in church services and church/volunteer activities and my uber desire to do more and please everyone and my soul has been hijacked by the ...
