A Homegrown Life

My middle son has been waiting since the beginning of our journey into the Middle Ages to read the story of William the Conqueror . He adopt...

It's time for the biannual Mom's Brag-a-thon! Music recitals come only twice a year, so you'll have to bear with me. (And feel f...

No matter how well you plan, something out of your control will always mess it up. It's good to plan anyway. Seize precious opportu...

Four and a half years ago, our church hired a new youth pastor to come up from Los Angeles. Greg and his wife, Claudia, had two little b...

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble....

The lights are up, the stockings are hung, the decorations have been out for two weeks...   The tree is finally complete, the shel...

She gets up while it is still dark, She provides food for her family... --Proverbs 31:15 The days are growing shorter, and the early morn...

I haven't done a Simple Woman's Daybook post in so long, and it feels right for today... Outside my window... the sky is grey...

"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven." I don't know about you, but I was ready for 20...

"Research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing." -- Wernher Von Braun Hmm. Maybe it's time for a vote. I...

Christian Unschooling.com has a new post up about taking unschooled children to "Children's Church." This can be such a chall...

Questions that come up during a home renovation... How does my garden grow? Will I ever be able to see it from my kitchen window again? (Yes...

So funny, I thought it had been only three years since I last painted that bedroom. But looking back at my first few posts, I realize how m...

I LOVE this . I napped every day when I was pregnant with each of my kids -- completely guilt-free. A mama needs rest to grow a new baby, ri...

I had one of those public experiences tonight that always catches me off guard, perhaps because I spend more time with people who share my p...

"For I know the plans I have for you" --this is the Lord's declaration-- "plans for your welfare, not for disaster, to gi...

“Those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy! He who goes out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of ...

On the eve of my birthday last week, I made myself a promise -- a promise to take better care of myself during the next year. I wrote this l...

Spring has a way of opening up endless possibilities... the weather is lovely, so we want to be outside -- but do we go out in our garden, o...

You know how they say that an activity will fill up as much time as you give it? Yeah, I'm not sure what activity it was exactly, but th...