Category Archives: culture

So, Wal-Mart and Sam’s are stocking so much more organic stuff these days. It’s so hard, because I want to buy from my small local health food store (owned by members of our small group, even!) but they outprice them by SO much and my grocery budget is not unlimited.

I wish I didn’t have to choose between supporting a company I believe in and feeding my family less total organic food and giving my money to the evil empire but getting to eat more organics. I hate that Wal-mart is putting me in this quandry.

One of the most difficult things for me about homemaking is the cyclical nature of the work. I changed a dozen diapers yesterday. I’ll change a dozen diapers today. I wash and fold and put away laundry that I will wash and fold and put away again next week.

When I finish a photo announcement, I have a sense of accomplishment because it’s complete and even if I do something similar, I will never make the same exact one again. In teaching, there’s the same sense of accomplishment. Even if math will be taught again tomorrow, that particular lesson has been taught, mastered and put behind us. Continue reading →

I had a great day with the girls and got a lot of housework done, which is always encouraging. Then I spent the evening working on getting Lexi’s birth announcement out. As my dear husband pointed out to me, I *could* just use outlook and run the envelopes through the printer. But I so enjoy busting out my best cursive and addressing them by hand. It may be progressive to use technology, but I’m a stick in the mud, I guess.

Not quite 43 things but a list of things I’d like to do. Some are life-long goals I’ll never be finished with, some are attainable in the short term, some I plan to do decades from now. Mostly a Mondo Beyondo list a la TulipGirl.