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...
Fitness is not about your scale
I am not telling you anything new when I say that we are a bit obsessed in this country with weight loss. Don't get me wrong: I am all for getting to and maintaining a healthy weight. I am in the process myself of working in a healthy way to shed some extra pounds. However, we mistakenly equate being fit with weight loss. In fact, on the whole, we say that someone is fit if they are trim. If they have well-defined arms and legs, or a six-pack, we say that they are "fit." In reality, fitness is simply about being healthy and able to do what we need and want to ... Continue Reading...
We are not robots
Sometimes we don't realize just how complex a being each of us are. God made us multifaceted and multilayered. We are not one-dimensional, especially when it comes to our emotions, and too often we don't give ourselves ( or others) a wide enough berth to process through those emotions. Recently, I was in the midst of preparing for a huge family experience that had been 1 1/2 years in the making. In that same moment, I was in the throes of wrapping up grades for the home school year for my ninth grader. Now, I have done closing grades for many years, so I am familiar ... Continue Reading...
I need a moment….
This was me last week. Has anyone else felt like this? Do tell in the comments below. We are all in this together! I need a moment. Things are starting too go way too fast for my liking. I am sitting here at the University of Richmond with Dominique, do our first official college visit. Mind blown. Tre is wrapping up his Freshman year at our local community college. He has made the transition from home education to his collegiate experience superbly. And there are more exciting transitions to come. Adia and I are closing in on the end of her freshman year of ... Continue Reading...
Help…I need to organize my digital photos!
Okay readers, I am reaching out. Like many of you, I enjoy taking photos on my iPhone. It is awesome to have the technology to capture the moments that mean so much. However, keeping up with getting them off my phone and catalogued on the computer has become a bit overwhelming! I have yet to figure out an effective way to systematically organize our life in pictures. What do you do? Do you have a system that you use? An app or software? Do you store on your computer or in a cloud somewhere? Please share your tips with me in the comments section below. I'm so ... Continue Reading...
I heart Mondays!
We often bemoan Mondays, but I have come to the realization that I like this day of the week. Want to know why? - Monday starts off a fresh week, full of possibilities - I enjoy routine more than I care to admit, and this is the first day of a whole set of weekday routines - I can purpose in my schedule to use time on my side and get a jump on the tasks that I have for the week Do you enjoy Mondays? why or why not? I look forward to hearing your thoughts, Happy Monday, Dee ... Continue Reading...
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