My husband used to have a Sega game system and wanted to get me involved, so he got me Sim City. In this game, you essentially create people and then live their lives. From above and diagonal as if I were a giant looking down into a roofless house, I could see each of her…
Elements of a Successful Homeschool Day
Over the years, I’ve found that homeschool success is a relative term, a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. My success won’t look like yours. Heck, mine won’t look like mine in 6 months or a year. As soon as you decide you’ve achieved it, it can shift and change. It shifts…
More Than Happy: The Wisdom of Amish Parenting – A Book Review
Author Serena Miller was already immersed in Amish culture. She’d written novels based on it, and during her research she noticed the difference in their children compared to the wider American culture. They seemed content, calm. She’d never seen one throw a fit, never seen an Amish mother hurrying to give her child what he…
The Lost Skill of Boredom – and How to Develop it
A boy walked through the hills and woods, spending hours and hours over the years listening to nothing but the birds chirping, the wind blowing through the leaves, and the thoughts in his head. His mind wandered as much as his feet. This lifestyle was part of the fertile soil that produced the Theory of…
Welcome to Her Sacred Burden
Isn’t it a beautiful thing when a phrase or quote jumps out at you and encapsulates so thoroughly something you’ve been thinking and praying about? I’ve been praying about starting a blog for a few months, and before that it had a place firmly lodged in the back of my mind for years. I’ve heard…