Our Cozy Family Life
Over the years I’ve shared many stories from our daily family life. They are grouped here by category or you can scroll through everything below.
Living A Quiet Simple Life
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Over the years I’ve shared many stories from our daily family life. They are grouped here by category or you can scroll through everything below.
As the official end of summer approaches, I thought I would make a record of what I did, thought about, and learned this summer as I was sorting it all out. Posting was quite slow here and there were …
Caroline did a swap with another creative woman at our church earlier this summer. For her part of the swap, Caroline painted a brick to look like a book of The Hobbit. Here’s the book cover she …
Most things in creation have been running two to four weeks ahead around here. Our daisies were a few weeks early in June as were the Brown-Eyed Susans and lilies in July. The corn we drive past on …
In late March, I was contacted by The Epoch Times regarding our family’s homeschooling experience. They were interested in writing a story about the fact that I am a former teacher who is now …
I’m still here, sorting it all out as part of my cozy life reset. I’ve been trying to determine what it means to be faithful at this point in my life with the talents the Lord has given …
Every May 11 our family celebrates It’s a Girl! Day. This is the day I found out via my ultrasound we were having a girl. We had prayed for many years for a baby and, specifically, a daughter. …
We went outside this evening to see the Northern Lights. Caroline was able to take many lovely photos of what we saw here in West Michigan. The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the …
Genuine question and I’d love to hear the experiences of others in the comments. I consider a normal week to be one that unfolds mostly the way you expect it to when you go to bed on Sunday …
One of the things I’ve been working on is removing the distracting possibilities from my life. That’s what I’m calling all the things that call out to me with their potential. There …
The past five months or so have been one of the most intense periods I’ve been through in a long time. Intense in different ways than other times I’ve experienced in my life and so they …