Even though life ain’t easy sometimes, I still want to celebrate every day! So I’ve challenged myself to take photos of my blessings and write haiku for each photo. Some days, I succeed, and other days I collapse into bed without recording any blessings for the day. Each day I resolve to try again.

Mayhaps you’re a wanna-be scrapbooker like me? Join me in this simple and hopefully daily way to record your life. Share your haiku and photographs on your blog and post the link in the comments. I’ll swing by to read of your blessings! If you tweet about this haiku project, please use #Blessings365 in your tweet. I’ll share one of my haiku each week (really!), and it may or may not have been written recently. You can share as many as you want as often as you want to participate in this project. I’m keeping it loose with the rules so we all have room to play. 

If you would like to read more about my blessings, visit the Characters of My Life area of my About Page.

2-13-2012

 made it for Brother

he can’t build this by himself

Then: Destruction Team!

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Thoughtful Reading on Writing

If you had to choose a word for the year, what would it be? I’m trying to finish a few things. Stephanie Shackelford of Routines for Writers finds herself focusing on discovery. What about you?

Moments for Mamas

Do you ever feel tapped out? Drink up from the unquenchable well!

And For the Kids

Rhea the Memphis Redhead shared an awesome site comparing the size of things from the smallest particles to the known universe. If you’re studying the metric system this site will teach you more than a dozen worksheets about converting centimeters to kilometers. Warning to parents: The scale of the universe site features a commercial while loading that may or may not be G-rated.

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Have you experienced the blessing recently of witnessing a giving heart between children?

Even though life ain’t easy sometimes, I still want to celebrate every day! So I’ve challenged myself to take photos of my blessings and write haiku for each photo. Some days, I succeed, and other days I collapse into bed without recording any blessings for the day. Each day I resolve to try again.

Mayhaps you’re a wanna-be scrapbooker like me? Join me in this simple and hopefully daily way to record your life. Share your haiku and photographs on your blog and post the link in the comments. I’ll swing by to read of your blessings! If you tweet about this haiku project, please use #Blessings365 in your tweet. I’ll share one of my haiku each week (really!), and it may or may not have been written recently. You can share as many as you want as often as you want to participate in this project. I’m keeping it loose with the rules so we all have room to play. 

If you would like to read more about my blessings, visit the Characters of My Life area of my About Page.

2-2-2012

Mr. Groundhog? What

was your prediction? Oh, wait.

Never mind. Thanks though!

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Thoughtful Reading on Writing

Can you turn down a book deal without regrets? Yes, it is possible. Amy tells all! Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five, and Part Six

Moments for Mamas

Enjoy giving yourself a break. How often do you go to the store with your precious babies and hear, “They grow up fast. Enjoy every moment!” On comes the guilt trip. You were just counting down the minutes until bedtime!

And For the Kids

Okay, maybe this is for the kids at heart. I have to share this site with classic Nintendo games that I used to play before they started the 3-D stuff that makes me dizzy. Go check it out, and share some memories.

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Has spring sprung in your neck of the woods? Or are you predicting a surprise blizzard?

Even though life ain’t easy sometimes, I still want to celebrate every day! So I’ve challenged myself to take photos of my blessings and write haiku for each photo. Some days, I succeed, and other days I collapse into bed without recording any blessings for the day. Each day I resolve to try again.

Mayhaps you’re a wanna-be scrapbooker like me? Join me in this simple and hopefully daily way to record your life. Share your haiku and photographs on your blog and post the link in the comments. I’ll swing by to read of your blessings! If you tweet about this haiku project, please use #Blessings365 in your tweet. I’ll share one of my haiku each week whenever I manage it, and it may or may not have been written the previous week recently. You can share as many as you want as often as you want to participate in this project. I’m keeping it loose with the rules so we all have room to play. 

If you would like to read more about my blessings, visit the Characters of My Life area of my About Page.

10-28-2011

gift from lifetime friend

flood of memories I pass

down to my children

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Hi! How have you been? I’ve been doing well. I know my blogging has been sporadic at best, but my writing has not been! According to 750words.com, I’ve written over 12,000 words so far in November. Much of it has been rambling thoughts and nonsense, but it’s writing, that stuff that keeps me sane. I really think I might be starting to figure out that question I’ve been wrestling with: “How exactly do I homeschool, write, and keep a reasonably clean home on a daily basis?”

How do you keep up with different parts of your life without living on a seesaw?

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Thoughtful Reading on Writing

Three Dozen Ways to Get Unstuck - Some of these sound fun enough to build a date night around. Hey, Honey! Are you reading my blog?

Moments for Mamas

Big Responsibility in a Tiny Package - This writing mama really has her priorities in order. Warning! Kissable baby feet on the other side of that link!

Embracing the Blessing - Great thoughts here on “higher” education and motherhood. I received plenty of criticism (most of it imagined) after finishing college and then immediately becoming a SAHM. I love what Kathleen quotes from a former professor about becoming fully human.

And For the Kids

My Name is Stegosaurus - Learn this song and sing it five hundred times while an adult in your life drives you places.*

*Not that I ever did anything like that! My brother, cousins, and I had around fourteen songs that we alternated through during a car (station wagon, giant van, whatever) ride. It was a playlist!

Even though life ain’t easy sometimes, I still want to celebrate every day! So I’ve challenged myself to take photos of my blessings and write haiku for each photo. Some days, I succeed, and other days I collapse into bed without recording any blessings for the day. Each day I resolve to try again.

Mayhaps you’re a wanna-be scrapbooker like me? Join me in this simple and hopefully daily way to record your life. Share your haiku and photographs on your blog and post the link in the comments. I’ll swing by to read of your blessings! If you tweet about this haiku project, please use #Blessings365 in your tweet. I’ll share one of my haiku each week, and it may or may not have been written the previous week. You can share as many as you want as often as you want to participate in this project. I’m keeping it loose with the rules so we all have room to play.

If you would like to read more about my blessings, visit the Characters of My Life area of my About Page.

October 15, 2011

apple tree blossoms

in October . . . I can hope

for new beginnings

I always start new projects in September near my birthday. What inspires you to try something new?

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Thoughtful Reading on Writing

101 of the Best Fiction Writing Tips

• Part One
• Part Two
• Part Three
• Part Four

Moments for Mamas

Finding Time for Projects

• Life in a Shoe
• Raising Olives
• Smockity Frocks
• The Common Room