You guys! Yesterday was kind of the best day … Because yesterday, The More Than Enough audiobook, which is officially out now, hit No. 1 in homeschooling new releases on Audible! It also hit No. 1 in new Motherhood books on audio! And No. 3 in ALL Motherhood books. I could barely breath most of…
Well first, let me apologize for the bossy title. I’m not normally so forceful, it’s just that I happen to have encountered a lot of moms lately who are dealing with burn-out. Like, drag-me-up-off-the-floor-to-make-a-quesadilla level of burn-out and exhaustion. I think a lot of things can cause us to burn out, and right now, I…
I can still remember the day that I quit homeschooling. I was on our cordless phone (this is an old story), pacing in my dining room. I was talking to the woman at the nice Montessori-esque school, and she was walking me through how to enroll my son to start in January. And I’m going…
For many years, winter and I were not friends. I would get terrible winter blues and struggled with the cold. It made me cranky. Our windy old Victorian was so architecturally interesting and so, so terribly drafty and miserable. It was built in 1905, and remodeled many times. The last time, right before we bought it,…