Home Is Where Your Story Begins
Sometimes my heart just aches over my children. Not because of choices or circumstances or influences. But in the crushing reality that our earthly life is so hard. Our family knows hard. Our family knows pain. And this overwhelming sense of unrest before surrender sweeps over me. I know that you know that my heart is … [Read more...]
Since I went scrapbooking last weekend I thought I'd share the Music is in Me layout I created about my oldest son. As you can tell, there is nothing very complicated in my scapbooking style. I like a nice clean (usually symmetrical) combination of journaling and pictures. This layout just makes me happy. I love tracing my son's musical … [Read more...]
I posted this last year on February 23, ran across it again and wanted to post it because it's such great encouragement for moms. Being a mother is the most exhilarating and challenging call on my life. Some days I'm up for the challenge and some days I feel like a total failure. Then I get up and do it again the next day. Motherhood is not a … [Read more...]
(I am on a scrapbooking retreat but wanted to leave this post, published first in January of this year, as encouragement for today.) Do you ever feel like you are drowning? Losing yourself in your kids or your job or your home or the demands on your life? For me, since our adoption it has been losing "me" in the craziness and trials of … [Read more...]
What do you do when you want to find a fun activity for your family? You buy a Groupon, of course! I purchased a buy one get one free groupon for the local corn maze in our area. Thinking I was being smart, I bought two deals which gave me four tickets. That was for us and our younger two. I had already talked to our married duaghter and she and … [Read more...]
This week's Project Life layout centered around my son Joshua and his move-in for sophomore year of college. The left side of the layout has hand written journaling as well as pics of my son and the oatmeal packets we made him for college. His seminary does not have a cafeteria so I try to send him some homemade frozen foods to make sure … [Read more...]
It’s easy to join in, just: Check what the prompt is on my blog. Write a post in only five minutes on that topic on your blog. Link over here and invite friends to join in. Select the permalink to your post {so not your blog url www.lisajobaker.com but your post url www.lisajobaker.com/2012/07/five-minute-friday-2/ } Using the linky … [Read more...]
List #32: Tidbits for my College Son Go food shopping BEFORE your food runs out. Don't forget to ask for help, from adults and other students. Your family misses you every day. You can bring your laundry home. Skype is a wonderful thing :-) Go to the beach one weekend. Text your older sister sometimes. She misses you, … [Read more...]
My son Joshua has completed his first year of college and survived to tell about it. As his homeschool mom I was nervous as to how he would do academically, being our first to attend college. He did great, and I'm proud of the diligence he showed in juggling his newfound freedom and responsibilities. However, we did discover that said son needed … [Read more...]
Tim and I had a wonderful conversation with our son a few nights ago and I reflected on how these past two years have been a transition into adulthood for us. I wanted to share them here in hopes they would help someone walking that parenting road from childhood to adulthood. Tim and I are normally very in sync with our ideas about raising the kids … [Read more...]
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