• Tammy’s Adoption Story {Guest Post}

    Don’t miss this guest post adoption story; Tammy’s story is full of daily challenges and a very sad chapter, but it’s a beautiful story nonetheless. Be sure to visit Tammy’s blog, too: The Durable Mom. I missed my daughter’s First Communion last spring. Fifteen minutes before we need to leave for church, our youngest son…

  • The Real {online} Me

    In my little corner of the online world, I want to be real — but that doesn’t mean sharing EVERY little thing. I share more personal things about my family than many bloggers do, but there’s simply no reason to share the nittiest of the grittiest. It would violate the trust of those closest to…

  • Our Week: Chicks and Flowers!

    We’re still doing all the usual things: math, history readings, map work, Bible study, copywork, and so on, but we’re trying to add in a bit more art and at least a little nature study. This week, we did the “three little chicks” pastel, inspired by Nana at the Hodgepodge. The resulting art: mine, with…

  • Our Television Interview!

    Finally, our television interview is online! We missed the actual airing because it’s at a time when we’re in church on Sundays, but I was closely watching for when it would be online. This is the full episode, which is 23 minutes (since commercials have been cut out). Our part is interspersed throughout. I really…

  • Our Week: Pollen, Rainbows, and A New Door!

    The highlight of our week this week was a brand new back door. This may not sound tremendously exciting, but the old one was just about rotting out of the wall, so it was much needed. Our next project is to get the back porch a bit more finished. Below, the old rotting door at…

  • Spring has sprung in Georgia!

    It’s spring, y’all, and here in Georgia, we are evidently high achievers because we’ve had record-breaking high temps and record-breaking high pollen counts, even before spring officially sprung! We’re already having to mow the lawn, too, or else Lacy the WonderDog will get lost out there in the tall grass (and weeds). The other day,…