My Life as a One-and-Done Teacher and Homeschooler
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 …
AQSL 003: Don’t Raise Snowplowed Sauce Girls
What are snowplowed sauce girls? Take a listen to Episode 3 of A Quiet Simple Life with Sallie Borrink. We’re breaking down what this means, where it comes from, and how to avoid it in our …
Happy It’s A Girl Day!
May 11 is an official holiday in our home! We celebrate It’s a Girl! Day to commemorate finding out via ultrasound that we were at very long last expecting a girl. We had prayed specifically for …
Our Yearly Celebration: It’s A Girl Day!
Through the many long years we prayed for a child, we prayed specifically for a girl. I had always known I wanted a girl and David was also inclined to pray that way. When we found out on our ninth …
Parenting & Enjoying Your Only Child
We are the thankful parents of our only child, a daughter who is currently eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen. It was never our intention to have an only child. …
Two Reasons I Love Little Bear
Based on reader recommendations, I bought the Feel Better Little Bear DVD for Caroline many months ago. It was a great decision as it has become a favorite in our home. We’ve also since added …
Homeschool Versus Christian School
Some of you may have noticed my absence around here the past few weeks. It wasn’t an intentional break. It was a break that just kind of developed as I needed time to do and think and process. …
Should I Send My Only Child To Preschool?
I’ve been finding interesting reading that has helped me think about the preschool question. My gut tells me not to send Caroline to preschool, but I am also trying to be open to God leading in …
Are You A Couple With A Child/Children Or A Family?
I hope you all had a nice Christmas. Ours was rather up and down. I won’t get into the details, but it wasn’t what we had planned. David and I both woke up feeling rather depressed …
Great Post About Having An Only Child
In my never-ending quest to find reasons to tick people off in the blogosphere, I’ve actually contemplated putting up a blogroll in my sidebar entitled something like “A Quiverfull of One …