Raising kids. Keeping House. Choosing joy, every day.
Spring is here and I feel like cleaning and decluttering my home. After helping my family clean out my grandmother’s house, I realized that my own home needed a thorough slimming down as I’d accumulated a lot of stuff over the years! I have plenty …
I’ve long said that there is a sad lack of older women who blog and write. We’ve speculated over the reasons why women’s blogs go radio silent in the mid-life years here. But today I’m here to tell you about Aging With Grace: Flourishing in …
It’s time for a newsy post! It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Time sure flies by! We’re in the full blown melting of spring. Two weeks ago we were snowmobiling. This week, we went to the park and it was 55 degrees outside. It’s been …
In chapter 8 of ReFresh, Shona Murray talks about remedying depression and choosing to balance the things that drain the life out of us, with the things that give us energy and fill us up. She discusses things that help depression: Good exercise, good sleep, …
Do you recall this scene from LMM’s Anne of Green Gables? “Will you please call me Cordelia?” she said eagerly. “Call you Cordelia? Is that your name?” “No-o-o, it’s not exactly my name, but I would love to be called Cordelia. It’s such a perfectly …
I’ve lived in the same county my entire life and grew up in an agrarian family. We were very aware of the seasons and how they affect our life, the landscape, our dress, and our crops. There’s comfort knowing a place so well that you …
We’re one week into our 10 week Refresh book study and I wanted to recap the Introduction and Chapter 1. In the introduction to the book, the frantic life and the grace-paced life are contrasted and placed before us as two opposing options. We all know …
This is my go-to scone recipe. Until our recent kitchen renovation, this recipe was taped into the cupboard door where I could have quick access to it. I made it so often over the years whenever we needed a pick-me-up during a long, tedious school …
I don’t quite remember the first time I felt self-conscious and embarrassed when I told someone I was a full-time housewife and mother, but I’ve had lots of experience with that feeling to date. Mostly feelings of inadequacy and second-guessing what I was doing with …
I just finished reading Christine Hoover’s Messy Beautiful Friendship which comes out on April 18th, and I’ve enjoyed it immensely and wanted to share a few thoughts and quotes from it with you. First off, I wasn’t sure what to expect from a book about cultivating women’s friendship. …