The morning I saw the spider I read Psalm 85. Restore us again, O God of our salvation. Steadfast love and faithfulness meet; righteousness and peace kiss each other. Faithfulness springs up from the ground, and righteousness looks down from the sky. Yes, the LORD will give what is good. I woke up early that day. And some reason I was just sitting at my desk. I was waiting for the coffee to brew and I hadn’t yet opened my…
Down the street from our house is an empty lot. It wasn’t always empty. Once there stood a house. A family lived here. They fed the deer in our neighborhood, so we always saw our deer herd in their yard or on their porch. They had a red car and a brick house. One day, as we were driving by, we looked over and the house was gone. We knew the family had moved out a few weeks prior. We…
One of my favorite memories from my childhood is playing “school” on Thanksgiving and Christmas. All of my cousins can distinctly remember this game we played in our grandmother’s back rooms. We were always on a “break” from school in real life, but we still wanted to play school. I’ll give you one guess who always wanted to be the teacher….yep. That would be me! I’m sure it is hard to imagine, but I was a little bossy when I…
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…