This is the ultimate Bathroom Exercises for the multi-tasker, Type A, overachiever who needs to get a lot done in 15 minutes. Or the mom who doesn’t have time for cleaning and exercising. Amazingly,  checking the box of cleaning a whole room in my house, exercising and praying spurs me to keep on battling my “to do list.”

Gather your cleaning supplies. Get your yoga pants on, if you don’t already have them on. Turn on your favorite praise music.

Since my bathroom is small I put my yoga mat in the hallway outside of the bathroom for the floor exercises.

Bathroom Exercises for Cleaning:

Squirt toilet bowl cleaner into the bowl and close the lid. [Read more...]

I love to support those parents who are called to adopt or foster.

Although I am not an adoptive parent many of my friends are.

I just returned home from my annual trip to the CHAP convention. Since I have been attending for the past 13 years you do find that you make friends with people you see every year at the same event.

This year one of those friends shared with me her desire to hold a retreat at Sandy Cove for adoptive and foster parents.

A quote from the website, www.JoyFortheJourneyRetreats.org [Read more...]

So Long to “Niche”

First, I was blessed by the response to “Finding My Niche”

Y’all blessed me with your comments and emails. Since God didn’t give me a “niche” life, I don’t need to desire a “niche” blog.

Hooray for Layers!

A little irony to my writing to this week

A few weeks ago another blogger asked to me write about money and debt free living. I spent the week praying and writing about 3 posts. While I was focused on writing, we took a few financial hits with medical bills and unexpected living expenses. By the end of the week, we had $45 dollars in the checking account; that really has a way of getting your attention. Here I am writing about debt free living and my finances look really bad. [Read more...]

After blogging for about 18 months, working on finding my voice and improving my writing, I still dread the question…”What is your niche?” How much effort should I put into finding my niche?

Ultimately homeschooling is a huge common theme, but the sub categories are hugely different at my house. Not to mention there is more to life then homeschooling.

Possible topics for finding my niche [Read more...]

Captivated the movie, Finding Freedom in a Media Captive Culture 

The word “captivated” means wonder and delight or strongly attracted. This documentary really wants you to stop and ask yourself, what is my heart strongly attracted to or what am I taking my delight in?

That was the opening thought to the small group of teens I assembled to watch Captivated the movie. The first question was how much screen time do you consume a day? Which led into what counts for screen time, video games, TV, computer, or cell phones. Then the questions became do we count screen time that is only for enjoyment or do we count time that counts for schoolwork? I didn’t have them share their answers; I mainly wanted them to have an idea of where they were on screen time usage before we began the movie. [Read more...]