During the season of Advent I get caught between two extremes: a desire to cuddle up on my couch, surrounded by quilts and the entangled arms and legs of my children AND to miraculously deep clean my entire house, complete my resolutions from the beginning of the year, teach thoughtful/engaging/life changing lessons and create homemade [...]
Category: Ponderings
Coming Home: Relationships and Connection, Guest Post with Nicola
Meet Nicola Piccola, one of the wonderful homeschool mothers that Has inspired me in my own journey. Nicola is an in tune and intentional mother who homeschools her children in Northern California. Her honesty in her posts has always resonated with me and I find myself wandering over to her blog when I need [...]
Coming Home: Intentions and Self Care
It is starting to feel frosty in the mornings, which makes getting up early a little intimidating. But my tea and morning basket are calling me and after years of fighting this advice from my mentors, I am answering the call. I am not running a mile or meditating for an hour. In the past, [...]
Coming Home: Introduction
I really should have known better. It was 15 minutes into our day and the stress breathing had already begun. My youngest was exhausted, and the older two were wishing that at 8 in the morning they were anywhere but in the car. As we started off our new homeschool year calendar overstuffed with co-op [...]
Summer days and epiphanies
Hello my dear friends and fellow creative mamas! I hope that this month finds you fully present in making wonderful memories with your family. Some of those memories will of course be of tantrums, messy houses and maybe a mama meltdown (or two!). But, hopefully it is being sprinkled in with lovely moments of nature, [...]