A while back, I bought my very own copy of Lord, Please Meet Me in the Laundry Room: Heavenly Help for Earthly Moms, by Barbara Curtis (whose blog, Mommy Life, is one of my daily reads).
I particularly like this quote from it:
Somehow He made me understand that a mother of toddlers just isn’t like [...]
We’re still not sure where we’re moving, but God did put one house in our path to see, if not to live in–a truly homely house tucked away in an unlikely place. It was good for my soul to see that such houses still exist; I am finding that nearly all of the rental [...]
We’ve been thinking for a while now about moving to a new place–and kind of living paycheck-to-paycheck in terms of certainty about the future–but now circumstances have conspired to pick the date for us: by the end of February, we will be out of this particular beige shoebox-shaped living space. God only knows [...]
“…is do my happy little taxes in peace.” –I may have discovered another sentence that has never before been uttered in English. Digging deep into the numbers has been one of my few joys lately; we are nearing another milestone for MFH’s amplifier kit sales, and so the forces of darkness have been [...]
For all the different social circles that we traverse around here, we know of only one other homeschooling family. So everyone assumes that OLC either is going, or will soon be going, to school, and this leads to occasional awkwardness.
I was thinking back on my own schooling; I went to public school and my [...]
…I was thinking about these words from a Waterdeep song a lot (though I don’t actually know the song title or which album it is on):
Jesus, I’m a sucker
I wish I’d believed less of the lies
Did anything I thought I knew
Turn out to be true?
‘Cause baby boys and little toys are all that
I see anymore
And [...]
The second sentence of this article is hilariously untrue:
In fact, the average cost of raising a child to age 17 is over $150,000 per year.
That cost is the total estimated birth-to-age-eighteen cost, probably from the USDA’s Cost of Raising a Child calculations, not the actual annual cost, thank goodness.
The rest of the article [...]
We’ve had another crazy, crazy week, crowned with MFH getting another round of viruses on his computer, and we had to do a big Advent calendar catch-up on Friday, because we were several days behind.
It is really starting to grieve me that we are spending our fourth Christmas in an apartment complex that doesn’t [...]
December 2: Object is an angel from an old Christmas card. On the card, I wrote that an angel told Mary that she was going to have a son.
December 3: Object is an embossed Christmas card picture of Mary, but the reverse side, where I did a rubbing with a graphite pencil. [...]
I thought I’d blog through my homemade Advent calendar this year. This is our fourth year of using it. I interspersed the Nativity story with some of Jesus’ attributes. There is an index card and a small object for each day.
Today’s object is a scroll (small roll of paper, tied). [...]