Do you ever walk into your home and see a mess and feel like a failure? Do you try your best to fix a meal for your family only to have it flop and get disgusted with yourself? Do you ever have a moment as a Mom when you feel like you have done something [...]
What Penny is Reading
Continuing with my New Year’s Resolution to read one book each month… not easy with a newborn in the house. This month, I feel like I am reading a lot of homeschool curriculum. Ugh! Seriously, choosing curriculum is the hardest part of homeschooling, but I am done choosing. The orders are placed and now I [...]
READING LIST: My Book Choices for March
You might think that I have abandoned my New Year’s Resolution to read at least one book each month but nope. I am still at it. I just was not getting a response to my posts about my reading so I stopped. (My goal is to never give you more information than you want here [...]
Changing Your Perspective “Under the Overpass”
What did you have for dinner last night? What did you have for breakfast or lunch today? Perhaps a handful of soggy popcorn or a half-eaten sandwich… half-eaten because someone else enjoyed the other part and left it on the table as they made a hasty exit to avoid the pungent odor drifting from your [...]
Reading List: Chapter Eleven
Life’s moments pass too quickly. Instead of brushing past them as if they were strangers in a crowd on our way to what we really want out of life, we need to embrace them, experience them, and allow God to use us in the moment in which we find ourselves. When we do, we find [...]
Reading List: Chapter Ten
Have you ever tried to save time? I find myself doing it each day, combining tasks and speaking to my children in short, choppy sentences in my haste. From page 112 of Living with Less: The Upside of Downsizing Your Life: “Time can only be spent, never saved. We should then ask ourselves every day, [...]
Reading List: Chapter Nine
With Chapter Nine of Living with Less: The Upside of Downsizing Your Life, we take a turn and talk about living a slower life. Mr. Tabb, quoting Ephesians 5:15-16, states that the key to living a slower life is to be wise. What does that mean? Living wisely means orienting our lives around that which [...]
Reading List: Chapter Eight
On to chapter eight of Living with Less: The Upside of Downsizing Your Life… This chapter is full of ideas on how to live in the real world, which never says “no” to anything and is always seeking to gain more and more. How do we shake off that mentality and truly live with less? [...]
Reading List: Chapter Seven
You guys are going to get tired of me saying this but Chapter Seven blessed me unlike any other. If you don’t have a copy of Living with Less: The Upside of Downsizing Your Life, check you local library or pick it up at Amazon because Chapter Seven for me was worth the $10 alone. [...]
Reading List: Paused
Before we move on to Chapter Seven, Mr. Tabb encourages us to stop and take an inventory of our possessions. Not the kind of inventory that you would present to the authorities if there were a burglary but the type that helps you evaluate where you are in life. You see, sometimes the things we [...]
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