treasuring a single moment when life is in transition

Stefan got the very first hug. :-)

One of the things about having a husband as a student is that life is transitional. I feel like I’m constantly having to remind myself that life is lived in ordinary moments, because we’re always planning and talking about the next thing. When we graduate, what next? Where will we move? What will we do? [...]

To my fellow seminary wife

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Forgive me for a moment as I write to a fairly small group of readers: my fellow seminary wives. Feel free to read along even if you aren’t a seminary wife. Many of these are life lessons whether in seminary or not. But this is a group of women that I hold a lot of [...]

Mother’s Day is not joyful for everyone

I’m on vacation this week, but I wanted to share this post that I originally posted last year. Mother’s day is upon us and hopefully we will remember to call our mothers, send a card, or in someway let them know we love them and are thankful for what they mean to us. Those of [...]

Homeschooling Inspiration

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Full disclosure: Affiliate links are used in this post. If you make a purchase through one of these links I will make a small portion of the sale. Thank you for benefiting my family and supporting this site. For those of you that homeschool or plan to homeschool, there are a couple of resources in [...]

Outsource housecleaning? No way!

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Shortly after Olivia came home from the hospital my parents gave us money specifically for a professional service to clean our home for a couple of months. At first I bristled. Paying someone else to come clean my house seemed like an absurd luxury and even though it wasn’t money out of my pocket I [...]