I always love hearing how other people spend their days, and given how many “Day In The Life” blog posts and Youtube videos there are, I know I’m not alone. It can be so helpful to gain perspective and ideas for our own days by observing other people. This post is not a day in…
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Systems in Homemaking
This is part 2 in a series on self-discipline and systems in homemaking. In part one, “Systems in Homemaking – What I Learned from a Video Game,” we talked about the differences between self-control and self-discipline, and why that matters in our daily lives. Something hit me as I approached my 40s. I’d been the…
Resistance – the Sneaky Saboteur Keeping us from Fulfilling our Calling
I just thought I was lazy. All my life I’ve been full of ideas, goals, dreams of great accomplishments in life. I would think about these dreams when I was going about my day. I’d daydream about them and enjoy the warm fuzzies they brought. But when I had 30 minutes or more to devote…
Systems in Homemaking – What I learned from a Video Game
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…