I have a noisy life. Oh, you too? I thought that might be the case. Of course, by “noisy,” we don’t always mean audibly noisy. We mean noisy inside our own minds, don’t we? Yes, I have noisy children who chatter endlessly, who get loud in play and louder in distress or indignation, children who…
The constant changes of life swirl around us daily, seasonally, yearly. Just about the time I think we have settled into a routine, something changes. I notice this a lot with my baby’s sleep schedule. For a while she was sleeping in, allowing me both a workout and a shower if I woke early enough….
Through the years, I’ve learned that when I don’t look at the whole picture before I say yes to a request, I make myself crazy and my family miserable. When people ask for help, I jump in and rarely leave margin for myself. At least, I used to. Now I pause. I am a recovering…
Early in April, my husband returned home from a four-month deployment to the Middle East. While he was there, he worked fourteen-hour days, seven days a week. While he was there, he didn’t have a single day off. He knew this ahead of time, and I suggested to him that we go on a vacation…
Any time I take one of the zillion personality tests available online, I am almost always an even blend of two types. On right brain/left brain assessments, I fall precisely in the middle. I should naturally, then, be perfectly balanced at all times, shouldn’t I? Unfortunately, this middle-mindedness often translates into a desire to find…
Like much of the country, our little farm here in East Tennessee saw record-breaking cold and snow during the month of January. And even though I’m a homeschool mom, I celebrated with many of you when our activities were canceled and we were forced to stay home, hunker down, and lay low. (I must be…