Monday Morning Mercies {Daybook}

God’s Glory Outside My Window

5-6 inches of snow one day, into the 60’s a few days later!! If you don’t like the weather in TN, just wait 10 minutes. 🙂 That’s what they say, anyway!! I admit, I like the cold, being snowed in and the beautiful white stuff. I’m always a bit sad when it melts! (Though my hardwood floors will thank me when no one is treading in all that mud and wetness!)

Giving Thanks

My oldest is 12 years old now, we celebrated Valentine’s Day with a few friends and yummy snacks as well as a family dinner that night to our favorite Mexican place. I’m thankful for friends on Facebook who cheered me up after a rough morning that day. 🙂

In The Schoolroom

Did you enjoy the Olympics with your kids?? WE DID!!! I’m sad they are over. We are several weeks into our Winter Olympics and Ancient Greece study! Loving it and loving the Chalk Pastel Tutorials for Winter Olympics also! We are also finishing up Ancient Greece and moving on to Ancient China now in our history readings!

From The Kitchen

Emily has made bread all by herself! What an awesome accomplishment for a 10 year old…especially considering her mama doesn’t enjoy it much. I’m SO glad that she does!! Several of you asked for that recipe and I will be posting it here on the blog very soon!

Around The Home

The house itself isn’t too bad…but the FLOORS, oh the floors…after snow and slush and mud for days on end…I need to mop a FEW times to get it all. 🙂

On My Nightstand

Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture is so far pretty good, I don’t think I’m far enough into it to tell you much…I think it was written more specifically for church leaders, but I think I can still glean a lot from it. At the very least, know I’m not alone in my weird ways and thoughts about the church. ha!

Chasing God was an amazing read for me. Angie Smith is one of my favorite authors. I wrote a full review of this book here. Hope you had a chance to read it.

MotherStyles: Using Personality Type to Discover Your Parenting Strengths ~ You will definitely be hearing more about this book in the future. I’m working on a few posts right now about Introverts and Homeschooling. 🙂 This book is for all mothers (not just homeschoolers) and finding how your personality type affects your mothering. SO interesting!!

Clicking Around

Have you been listening to these HomeschoolingIRL podcasts? I love them! I still need to catch up on their first ones, but I’ve listened to all the recent ones. In case you haven’t heard of these yet, my friend Kendra (from Preschoolers and Peace) and her husband are doing these and they are SO good.  Speaking of Preschoolers and Peace…did you know that was one of the first blogs I read AND one of the first blogs that made me really love blogging? Now that Kendra is in a different stage of parenting and life, she is focusing on the podcasts more, Michele is now writing more for P&P. I have loved getting to know Michele a bit through online chatting and just love her heart. You know how I love real, authentic posts about homeschooling…so you might guess I loved this post. 🙂 And she is also starting a series on Life in the NICU. I know if you’ve experienced the NICU you will be blessed!

Have you ever read any of Chesterson’s writings? I have not, but Sarah is making me want to do so!

Oh and have you seen this BRAND NEW homeschool conference in Pigeon Forge? It will be happening June 26-28, go here to read more about it and register now to save 20% off. I’m SO excited to have something LOCAL to attend! This brand new conference, Appalachian Home Educators Conference, is having a Facebook party this coming Tuesday evening from 7-8pm eastern time! You could win a free registration! I hope you’ll join us! Join us on their Facebook page!

Pondering

Oh I’m always pondering things, have you noticed?? (too much, quite honestly! ha!)

Prayerfully

Praying for my grandpa who has stage 4 cancer and is declining. Praying for so many others struggling with so many things. God be close.

Plans For The Coming Week

I shared my 20 simple meal ideas and will be sharing that bread recipe in the next 2 weeks. I also have that post coming up on the book Speaking of Jesus that I mentioned last week. You don’t want to miss it…and I hope you will join in the conversation because I would LOVE to hear your thoughts on this book!!

Sales & Discounts

Just a few days left before March 1st!! If you register for this brand new homeschool conference before March 1st you will save 20%!! Woo-hoo! Pigeon Forge in June! See you there!

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