A Quiet Simple Life
Sallie Schaaf Borrink
Post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure statement.
A few years ago I registered a domain for a pansy-themed website, but it wasn’t the right time, etc. Last weekend I realized that the pansy posts I had started doing here were the start of the pansy website I desired to do. So we registered the domain, set up the website, and I moved …
Post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure statement.
Back in early June I wrote about Our Trip to the ER on Sunday. Thankfully David was fine, but it was not a cheap outing. It also presented us with our first opportunity to submit a need to Samaritan Ministries since we had joined in April 2019. I wanted to do a follow-up since I …
Post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure statement.
Last year we had a brief glimpse of a fawn in the woods, but never saw one come out into our yard where we could see it clearly. Caroline greatly desired to see some fawns on a more regular basis. (Okay, I did too!) I told her that we should start praying about it because …
Post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure statement.
Caroline and I have completed our first two weeks of homeschooling this year. It’s gone well overall and I think we’ve settled into a flexible rhythm that works for both of us. But it’s been an adjustment for each of us in different ways. I’m getting up an hour to an hour and a half …
Post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure statement.
Last night while I was taking my shower, I noticed the water was only getting lukewarm. I thought maybe David and Caroline were doing something that was causing the hot water to not replace quickly enough, but that seemed unlikely. David did some investigating on YouTube and found the potential problem with the gas-fueled hot …
Post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure statement.
We start our homeschool year tomorrow so I have been organizing materials and preparing. This is the first year I’ve purchased multiple curriculum selections that include a printed student textbook and a teacher’s manual. The manuals, in particular, caused me to reflect briefly on my teaching career. Every year I was a teacher, I was …
Post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure statement.
I think I’ve mentioned we’ve been feeding the deer in the backyard. You know those videos you see on social media where a bunch of deer walk up to the house on the patio and look inside? Let’s just say it’s a good thing we have a deck. David named her Millie. She likes to …
Post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure statement.
Remember me? The woman who sent out a newsletter two weeks ago and said she was ready to start sending one each week? I’m living a very full life in real life at the moment. Some of this will be expanded on in separate posts, but for now here’s a peek at what’s been going …
Post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure statement.
This summer I reached the point in our homeschooling journey where I realized I needed an extended reset. I thought about just pushing through the last two years and keeping to our summer homeschooling plan. But I decided the next two years would probably be much better if I took a step back and gave …
Post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure statement.
Those of you who are very long time readers recognize that I’ve been hit and miss with posting for many, many months. Really, it goes all the way back to December 2021 when I wrote Creating My Life’s Work. But lately I was at the point where I simply didn’t know what to do with …
