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My Summer Garden
We aren’t doing formal nature studies right now, but even a trip to the mailbox provides a trip through furiously blooming flowers, busy bees, and fluttering butterflies, like this swallowtail on a purple butterfly bush (aka buddleia). Ken’s birthflower, the gladiola, is so named because it resembles a sword; the Latin word gladiolus means sword….
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4th of July: Food, Fun, Friends, and Puppies!
Lindsey’s friend Deanna spent the weekend with us again. Even when we don’t do much of anything exciting, I think she enjoys just hanging out; she currently lives in a group foster home for girls, and even though it’s a pretty good place, it’s not the same as having a family. And although we really…
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Counting more of my thousand gifts
“Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.” -Alphonse Karr Continuing to list one-thousand gifts as part of the Gratitude Community: 126) a new [old] car: 1995 Mazda Protege 127) we made it two years as a one-car family 128) I had time this week to clean…
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Homeschool Plans and Optimism
In about a week, both of my girls will be out of town. Lindsey will be on a mission trip with the youth group at church, and Kathryn will be on a vacation with her daddy and family. While they are gone, I will disappear into (or maybe under!) my enormous pile of school books,…
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Personality Types and Profiles
Today I tweeted something about how I dislike conflict so much that I am stressed even just overhearing a minor disagreement between other people. My twitter pal Becky responded, “Do you know your Myers-Briggs type? The conflict thing reminds me of me. I’m INFJ.” The last time I did a personality test was about seven…