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One of my all-time favorite bloggers, Rachel Held Evans, has been learning about Judaism as part of her “Year of Biblical Womanhood” project. Yesterday she posted about Rosh Hashanah (including a yummy challah recipe from a Jewish friend), which peaked my curiosity. Apparently, Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year, a time when people consider […]

Lately, I have been getting the urge to blog again. A million little things crossing my mind–“ooh, I should blog about that!”. So far, I haven’t. But now I’m thinking, why not? Taking a couple minutes out of my overcrowded days to blather on about whatever’s on my mind might be just the break I […]

Today when Carter, age 7, got off the bus, he complained that his feet hurt. Looking down, I saw the problem.   “Your shoes are on the wrong feet, buddy,” I pointed out. “They usually are,” he replied, completely non-chalant. After I quit laughing (because it’s true–Carter almost NEVER puts his shoes on the right […]

I figured that my kids would eventually reach the point in their education when helping them with their homework would require more than a cursory glance on my part. But I didn’t expect it to happen like this. Tonight, my nine-year-old came home with a worksheet that he is supposed to “correct,” using proofreading symbols. And I must have turned about three […]

I guess there’s not much more to say than that. 🙁 He was a gentle, patient dog that had been a part of our family since Jamison was a one-year-old, curly-headed Gerber-baby-clone. We’d known this was coming for a couple months, and last night it became pretty obvious he was nearing the end of his fifteen-plus […]

I am replacing my previous post, in which I fretted about politics, self-employment, and my children’s welfare, with something better: “Do not worry and say, What are we to eat? What are we to drink? How are we to be clothed? It is the pagans who set their hearts on these things. Your heavenly Father […]

When I came home from my grandparents 60th anniversary celebration (yay!) last night, Patches was nowhere to be found. Since Patches is fifteen years old (that’s Jamison, my 12 year old, hugging the harassed shitzu-poo–note the cool breed name and spiffy 1990’s couch), and it’s been several years since Patches ventured far off the porch, not to […]

So Carter, in an attempt to civilize his annoying baby brother, established a school in the kitchen, drawing charts and stars on our refrigerator (which is coated with blackboard paint) and teaching Grant proper school ettiquete. The school was running quite smoothly for about an hour, and I snuck away to squeeze some work in, but it wasn’t […]

I LOVE starting things. I love the creativity of brainstorming and fleshing out ideas, the excitement of seeing those ideas become reality and take on a life of their own, the thrill of riding the momentum created by a really good idea picking up speed and becoming more than you could ever make it on your own. I think I […]

So, I haven’t blogged since–erm–spring? Wow! Well, I’ve had a good excuse–a full load of classes, kids home all summer, and more work than I had planned on doing, which is a good thing, but also a busy thing. But now, the kids are in back school, music lessons have started, Women’s Retreat at CPBC […]

Carter: “Dear God, thank you for this wonderful day, and thank you for the food. And thank you for making our world better than the dinosaurs’ world–especially the stupid cavemans.” 😀 Read more at http://jennyraearmstrong.blogspot.com.

It’s astonishing how much young male dogs act like young boys. So, I came home from my vacation to find that my twins (Oberon and Apollo–Apollo decided to take an extended vacation in Obie’s yard for the winter, and I doubt if he will be going home) had not been behaving themselves at all in […]

I did not realize until this afternoon how exhausted I was. Again. I can’t help but wonder–is exhaustion just the natural by-product of being a mom? Or maybe the by-product of living in a world where your mental energies are constantly taxed, while your body is allowed to become soft and weak from lack of use? Is […]

(Man obviously surprised to see a friend.): “Well, whaddaya know!” (Smart alec friend): “Not much. How ya doin’?” 😀 I love Wisconsin. 😀 Read more at http://jennyraearmstrong.blogspot.com.