I rearranged my entire schedule so that today would be a free day.  Free from cleaning, free from errands, and free from .  I put dinner ...

{This post, like most of my posts that discuss books, contains affiliate links.} During my week of rest , one of my goals was to ...

I wrote my previous post on a Thursday evening with no intention of taking a ten day break.  It happened so suddenly that I never made an...

When eReaders and eBooks first came on the scene, I declared that I would never turn my back on traditional paper books.    How can I ...

This week in our School of Home Skills , Brian is teaching the kids how to take out the trash.  They've been helping with this task fo...

No, it was not a rainy day.  In fact, it was hot and sunny--a very "second day of summer" kind of day.  However, it was a wet ...

Sweat makes me cranky.  Sweat makes me feel icky and it zaps my energy and my good attitude.  Though I love the relaxed pace of summer, I ...

My unofficial blog series on reading is turning into an "official" series, I think.  We've talked about our reading quirks ...

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Around here, we keep our weekends busy , but I have a little secret.  The rest of the week, we are like old people.  We have a fiercely pr...