Have you ever flown in a plane and heard the instructions about oxygen masks? You know, the one that tells adults to put masks on first, then assist children? There is a reason for that. If the adults pass out from lack of oxygen, then they can't assist the children. In order to be a help, adults ...
Currently
Reading... Friction by Sandra Brown, Anything by Jennie Allen, and Wonder by RJ Palacio. This whole reading-multiple-books things is new to me, but I am really enjoying it. Wonder I read at school, because it is juvenile fiction and I'm considering sharing it with my fourth graders. Friction I ...
Welcoming Fall
I feel like I'm repeating myself when I say I LOVE FALL (because I am!), but I really do so love this season! I'm super excited for cooler temperatures (they will get cooler, right?), orange and yellows outdoors, and pumpkin-all-the-things. I habitually do a few things every year around this ...
iTunes Tells All
I am a great starter-of-things, but I'm not so good with follow-through. So when I saw Brandy's #Blogtember challenge, I thought it looked like fun but I knew there was no way I could commit to blogging every day. But then I saw a few of the topics that I wanted to cover, so I thought I'd jump in ...
Labor Day, She Reads Truth, and Other Random Tidbits
{image source} Happy Labor Day, friends! We are enjoying a relaxing, lazy day off around here. It's been a cool 90 degrees this weekend {insert crazy-eyed emoji here!} but fall is right around the corner and I could not be happier. These next four months are my absolute favorite time of the year. ...
The Noonday Delivery Disaster
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 ...
#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 ...
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 ...
Unraveled
Back in April, Lisa and I had the pleasure of attending a women's conference at Shades Mountain Baptist church in Birmingham. We came home with dreams of hosting our own conference at TBC. Fast forward three months, several Starbucks meetings, even more phone calls and emails later and our dream ...
A Prayer For Our Schools
We have a little over a month until school starts back and I'm equal parts excited, sad, and nervous. I truly love my job and the start of a new year is the best time--all the planning and organizing and decorating--but I'm super sad to be leaving Jase while I go to work. (Seriously, if schools ...
What I Learned In June
I'm linking up with Emily P. Freeman today to share what I've learned in June. Every month, bloggers from all over link up to share the interesting and random they have discovered over the last thirty(ish) days. I've always enjoyed reading through these link-ups, but until I discovered bullet ...
