A Glimpse Into Our Life

This round of A Glimpse Into Our Life includes a peek into our life lately.

Around here these days, I’ve been…

celebrating another birthday. It’s hard to believe it’s time for another birthday, but I feel nothing but gratitude. Have you heard Forrest Frank’s new song “Happy”?

These days, if you stopped by our house, you’d hear this song playing on repeat – in the kitchen – where I spend most of my time as a mom. ha!

I’m so happy I’m alive today
I’m so happy I can see the light of day
It don’t matter if it’s rain or shine today
‘Cause I know the God is on my side today
I’m so happy I woke up today
Put a little coffee in my cup today
To anyone who feels a little stuck today
Don’t forget that God made us enough today, enough today

excited about a new eBook. The biggest change in our life over the last few years has been our journey to minimize our STUFF. As we’ve settled in to a sort of maintenance mode with this, I’ve put together a new eBook that shares our story – and provides encouragement for other families looking to simplify.

It has felt so rewarding to reach this point where I feel able to help other people through our experience!

Enough with the Stuff - Chapters In the Book

Coming up with the chapter titles was one of my favorite parts of putting this book together, and I have to say, the chapter title about the toaster probably doesn’t mean what you think it does – ha!

LOOK CLOSER AT “eNOUGH WITH THE STUFF”

enjoying some special trips. Over the last several months, we have had some special occasions and milestones that we’ve been able to celebrate in a big way.

If you enjoy browsing trip ideas and travel tips, you might like to check out these snapshots of:

wrapping up another year of homeschooling. Some of you have been following along with us since my oldest son was in preschool! Would you believe he is now getting ready to start high school? I can hardly believe it!

For the last couple of years, he has been a full-time student with Liberty University’s Online Academy and his younger brother has joined him in the doing the same thing.

We are still fairly new to their program, so while I’m not sure I’m your best resource for it just yet – I will say that their website and social media/emails are really helpful if you’re interested in getting started with them. You can also have a phone call with them, which was really helpful to us in the beginning.

Middle School Student Working on a Laptop

For my younger two, I continue to be their primary teacher – using parent-led Abeka as well as a variety of different resources that are working well for us.

Next year, my youngest daughter will be doing second-grade, and Aubrey will continue to work at the level that works best for her for each subject area.

Mom and Daughters Reading Pippi Longstocking Together

For now, we’ve moved into summer mode – which means some downtime together and extra time spent with the grandparents!

I’ve already been diving into some good books I had planned for my summer! Anytime I read something I like, I post it to this list here. I have a feeling I’m going to be adding lots to my favorites there this summer.

returning to social media. With an obvious decrease in censorship, we have been returning to some of our original social media spaces. While we realize many from our original communities there have chosen not to return, we have been enjoying connecting with those who are still there.

if you use instagram, you can find us here!