books

I’ve been thinking a lot about poverty and prosperity lately. It’s something that really, I’ve thought about for as long as I remember. From the time I was a young teenager and my Dad traveled to Mali, Africa and to a small town in rural China. I have no recollection…

I have a draft of a post about not coddling our kids I thought I’d share today but I just feel like I want to share a few other things instead. Like how I adore this girl and want to coddle her all the time. Ha! (That was during Fall…

I used to commute to work when we lived in D.C. Whether it was riding the metro or driving in the “slugline” (a carpool-type way to get into the city), I would sometimes look around at all those around me and wonder about their stories. They all had them, of…

Ok I have really been holding firm to my goal to read at least two books each month in 2019 and I’m loving it. (My memorization goal, on the other hand, isn’t going quite so hot, but we don’t have to talk about that right now! ha!) I can’t quite…

Last week I shed some tears over this book: Yep, standing there in my bathroom getting ready for the day, listening to the most beautiful words wash over me from a copy I was listening to from the library. After I “bookmarked” probably half of the lines in my very…

I wrote a little bit about our “summer expectations” back HERE. I used the word “expectations” rather than goals because my girls were too dang slow to make their regular summer goals so I decided to set up some expectations instead. You know, give them a little of my medicine.…

1) First up, we have other college kids besides those ones in Hawaii. Isn’t it weird that word is plural? FOUR college kids because we’re counting Abby too (of course). Abby sent me this picture of Max’s first day: (Thanks Abby!, Go Max!) I don’t have one of Abby’s first…

I have read more books than ever before this summer, and I’m anxious to write and recommend a bunch of them, but there were three that I’ve been wanting to group together here because they made a huge impact on me over the last few months.  They all happened to…

I wrote about “mom inspiration” a few posts ago (about this great “Mom Conference” my sister put on…if you still want to listen to those great talks click HERE to find out how).  But now I want to write about “brain inspiration.” (which mom inspiration is too…but a little different…)…

As I mentioned in the last post, the girls and I finished book three in the Narnia series last month. It wasn’t my very favorite so far, C.S. Lewis uses some names and words that were hard for me to pronounce, let alone Lucy and Claire.  At one point when…