There are some things that take me a while to ponder: major life decisions, travel plans, redecorating my office, etc. However, it took me only a few minutes today to decide to pursue a new journey with my hair...I'm going to embrace (all) my grey. Why did I decide to go this route? (The biggie) I have noticed is that color changes the texture of my hair. I don't have super defined curls at all, but I have come to love and embrace my texture. My stylist told me that sometimes permanent color acts like a texturizer on the hair. So if I need to refrain from ... Continue Reading...
Refreshing thought: Managing the moving parts of your life
Daily living can be interesting, to say the least. Many of us need to navigate through a lot of different things that come our way. How do you handle the many moving parts of your life? I like that phrase "moving parts". It puts me in mind of a machine that has systems and doodads that have to work together. They have to sync in order to make the function of the machine most efficient. The phrase also speaks to a fluidity of motion, a rhythm...a flow. I like to look at my life as a flow, but not necessarily in the way the word is usually used. My flow is not ... Continue Reading...
The toaster, the flaming pop tart, and how I used a fire extinguisher
First, let me start by giving you the end of the story: all is well and no one or no-thing suffered damage, save one sad little blueberry pop tart. We thank the Lord because it could have gone differently. I want to make sure that the focus of the story is not on the flaming breakfast pastry, but on the safety measure used to quash the incident. EVERYONE needs to know how to use a fire extinguisher. So here is the story: I was down the hall getting ready to go meet with a friend of mine for lunch, when I heard my 15-year-old daughter say very sternly and with ... Continue Reading...
We are back…and you’ll never guess from where!
It has been so hard to not say anything here online, but now I can finally let the cat out of the bag: my family and I are back from 7 weeks in Spain! My husband had the opportunity of a lifetime to be the faculty member in residence for JMU's summer semester in Salamanca, and we had the blessing of going with him. His main responsibility was to oversee 37 students who came to Spain to study at the University of Salamanca and to work alongside the Director of the program here, Sr. Jesus Jimenez. Theirs was a total immersion program in the Spanish culture for 6 ... Continue Reading...
The blogging endgame…what’s yours?
I am by no means an expert in the field of blogging. But I am, however, a bit of a thinker, and this is a question that crossed my mind that I would like to explore for just a moment. What is your blogging endgame? I started my blog in 2010 as a way to pull my homeschooling children into writing and expressing themselves more. Mine was the "parent" blog on the platform, and I set their 3 blogs up under mine. Little did I know that their educational experiment would lauch me into the world of blogging, the blogosphere, for myself! So here I am, just shy of 5 ... Continue Reading...
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