Tag: Illuminations

  • Knowing when to let the schedule go

    Knowing when to let the schedule go

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    I’ve had grand learning plans for this summer. While our homeschooling is mainly on hold, I still wanted them to be learned.  I sat and planned out themed weeks of learning and then life happened, and I had to work on knowing when to let the schedule go. Or more accurately, June happened. I’d planned…

  • Why spring is hard to achieve goals

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    That’s what I’m learning because this staying up until ridiculously late hours of the night and then still getting up at 7:00 isn’t really working long term.  Yet I don’t seem to be doing better with that. We went to Jeff’s work to get pictures in the bluebonnets, and the kids were in a super…

  • I will call this the week I feel discombobulated

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    Isn’t that a great word? It’s just one that’s fun to say: discombobulated. That about sums up this week. I felt like I was playing catch up or figure out what’s going on all week long. We started off on Saturday with the boys’ birthday party.  We had a water war, each team was trying…

  • Where did February go?

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    It feels like February just started, and yet here we are on the last day of it. I’m having a rather uninspired day for writing and wanting to do anything productive.  It’s cold in my house and all I want to do is huddle up in front of a fire with a good book or…

  • So many changes in such a short time

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    It’s been a busy couple of weeks.  I was going to write a wrap up post last week, and then I got busy or sick, or something, I don’t remember what it was. Since Aunt Tara moved far far away up to Iowa, or as I like to call it Ground Zero for the Zombie…