Discipline & Doing the Right Next Thing
Last week I pulled up a quote from my favorite Elisabeth Elliot book, Disciple: The Glad Surrender. It has been several years since I’ve looked at it – my memory is reading it in our…
Last week I pulled up a quote from my favorite Elisabeth Elliot book, Disciple: The Glad Surrender. It has been several years since I’ve looked at it – my memory is reading it in our…
I seem to be getting more and more “how do you do it all” questions lately. I think we’re all looking for the magic secret ingredient that will suddenly make our super-long to-do list possible….
We really must begin with organizing our attitude before we organize anything else. We might think that making a plan and working a plan is all about the planner, the app, the method, but the…
Flexibility. We know that’s what we need as moms. While businessmen have office doors to close and paper-based projects that stay put when they leave the room, we do not. Our responsibilities revolve around people….
We have a lot on our plates, we stay-at-home, homeschooling moms. It’s easy to begin to feel flustered, scattered, overwhelmed, pulled in too many directions. I am always on the alert for strategies and habits…
You know I love lists. And I also love books. So what could be better than a list of books? How about a list of my books? I won’t try to convince you that you…
One more post about Michael Horton’s Ordinary: Sustainable Faith in a Radical, Restless World if you’ll humor me. I think this is a book any mom deep in the trenches of raising kids would appreciate….
A commonplace journal is not complicated and doesn’t need to be fancy. It is simply a place where notes and quotes from our reading are kept. The simpler we keep it, the better. Let me…
I recently finished Sally Clarkson’s new book, Own Your Life. The Clarksons are authors of one of my favorite homeschooling books, especially for starting out with young kids: Educating the Whole-Hearted Child. Owning your life…
Once again, I read fewer books than I had hoped in a year: 32. I read some really excellent ones, though, and that’s what counts. However, I don’t think I’ve ever had a year with…