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31 Days of Real Life: Homeschool Attendance Reports (a giveaway for Georgia homeschoolers)
The monthly attendance reports that homeschoolers are required to submit in Georgia cramp my style. I'm thankful to live in a good state for homeschoolers, but it's just plain easy to forget about those forms. If you do, however, you can expect a letter or call from...
31 Days of Real Life: Why You Should be Dating Your Husband
My husband's got my back. Literally. Last Sunday afternoon he accompanied me to Scott Kelby's Worldwide Photo Walk in Dahlonega, GA, shooting with nothing but a camera phone and toting my camera bag. Are photo walks his thing? Nope. This was his first. We just like to...
31 Days of Real Life: The First Week in Images
Welcome to Day 9 of 31 Days of Real Life, the one in which I unload all the photos from the first weekend's events. On October 1 my 16- and 10-year-old sons and I attended our homeschool group's annual mother/son outing at a 4H campground in the north Georgia...
31 Days of Real Life: On the Lam
When I made the last-minute decision to join the other 31 Dayers for October, and the even more last-minute choice of "real life" as a topic, I was concerned about having enough blogging material. Would my life—my. real. life.—be interesting enough to fill 31 days? I...
{31 Days of Real Life} Camera Phone Friday: Worldwide Photo Walk Edition
1. Sunday morning services 2. First day. Kicked my butt. 3. Guitar statue 4. The hubs, @labeldude, on @ScottKelby's worldwide photo walk with me #wwpw 5. Superhero row #wwpw 6. Amen. #wwpw 7. True dat. #wwpw 8. Dahlonega square #wwpw 9. Main Street U.S.A. #wwpw 10....
31 Days of Real Life: Ditch the Persecution Complex
I begin some mornings by finishing the previous day's work: emptying or filling the dishwasher; sponging the counters; clearing the dining room table; cleaning the stove. It feels good to start the day fresh. This morning the pie holders, pans, bowls, and spoons...
31 Days of Real Life: Rockin’ Red Rooster (Wordless Wednesday)
(If I write in parenthesis am I not really being less-than-wordless on Wordless Wednesday? This is real life: stalking a rooster who's protecting his hen and giving me the evil eye every time my shutter clicks just to get the shot. Two days in a row. Look at how...
31 Days of Real Life: Conformity Versus Conviction Today at (in)courage
Behavior driven by conformity is the exact opposite of conviction-driven behavior. Conformity says, “I’m acting this way because of external pressure. This is what you expect or demand of me, but I don’t necessarily believe in it or give it freely.” Conviction-driven...
31 Days of Real Life: Easy Like Sunday Morning (NOT)
When Lionel Richie sang "Easy like Sunday morning," he obviously wasn't referring to a typical family getting ready for church. Not ours, at least. Misplaced clothing, lost shoes, sleepy-headed stragglers, flaring tempers: all this and more fight against us on any...
31 Days of Real Life: Embracing the Spirit of a Child
When I became a parent, I slowly quit allowing myself the freedom to let go, to run, to explore, to see through the eyes of a child. Caring for small children takes time and responsibility. It's only been recently—realizing that my youngest is six and no longer needs...
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