The Importance of Having a Plan

Friend, let me tell you I’m a planner-loving girl! I love buying planners, I am in LOVE with organizing and planning….but that’s just how my brain is wired. In fact, we just NOW joined the Classical Conversations community in our homeschooling journey because I felt like it wasn’t very well “planned out.” {{Side note: It is VERY WELL planned, so relief here!}} When I wanted to run a 5K, I looked at a plan. When I wanted to learn how…

5 Reason Why I Get Up Early

**This post contains affiliate links. Please see my statement here for more details. Confession: First of all, friend…..this certain Daylight Savings year has been TOUGH. That first night, let’s be honest, I had plans to go to bed “on time…” But then “Oh yay! An extra hour (not to sleep) to stay up!” It is so weird, but I had such a hard time waking up early after that! Before all of this crazy Daylight Savings Time, I had gotten into a…

7 Things We Get When We Rely on God’s Strength

7 Things We Get When We Rely on God’s Strength I don’t think I’ve been sleeping well. I was at a conference last weekend and one of my roommates for the weekend is convinced I have sleep apnea. Her husband suffers from it, and she was telling me I stopped breathing for almost ten seconds several times the night before! Shocked, I texted my husband to ask him if he had ever noticed it too! His reply was: No, you…

How to Persevere When Life is Hard

How do we have a perfect faith? And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Peter 1:5-8 (KJV) The ingredients are faith, virtue, knowledge, self-control, patience…. Patience….