One of These Things Is Not Like the Other

With the global pandemic, COVID-19, closing our borders and shutting down travel and trade, I have been trying to be deliberate about getting out and being in the sunshine. The other day, my husband and I and one of our sons, and our two dogs headed to the beach. Our stretch of beach is really…

Our big Nova Scotia homeschool convention is over!  It was a success.  Our speaker was great, our vendors were fabulous and our volunteers amazing.  The youth entrepreneurs outdid themselves, families were encouraged and lots of new friends were made. All of that sounds wonderful doesn’t it?  Saturday night (it was night by the time I…

We have reached the end of another ‘school’ year and the highlight of the spring (other than sunshine) is homeschool conferences! I ususally don’t have the opportunity to hear very much of the speaker but this year I got to two workshops.  Very exciting!  What I do get – every conference – is tremendous blessing…

I don’t know about everyone else but there are times when I seem to have a fuzzy brain. Usually it is a result of overcommitment, lack of sleep and middle-aged estrogen. Last night, I stood in the kitchen door flicking the light switch, trying to turn off the kitchen light. The problem was that I…

I need to make a confession.  In the last week, I have not spent very much time with God.  I haven’t been reading my Bible and my prayer life has been short and probably not very sweet.  I’ve felt exhausted and struggled to be motivated. Not a very happy opening paragraph, but that’s where I’ve…

  Numbers 11:14…the burden is too heavy for me. Once upon a time, I heard a story of a father with his daughter at the train station.  The girl and her daddy were deep in conversation when she asked him a question about choices.  The daddy looked tenderly at his little girl and told her…