It’s been a week. Professionally, I’m making a change. It’s my last week with a wonderful company in the education industry and after a couple weeks off, starting tomorrow, I’ll be entering a new industry (construction), new role, new company. I updated my LinkedIn profile and apparently aged ten years overnight. I’ve been up and down and all around with feelings and tasks. Transitioning out of a role, at least the way I do it, is intense. It takes major organizational skills

There are two things in particular I'm loving about our homeschool experience. First and foremost, its teaching us all a little something about being kind and flexible. I work fulltime as a commercial transactions lawyer. In english: I read and write contracts and advise the business on how to resolve and prevent contractual disputes. For me, this means work can sometimes feel unforgiving. When my clients need me they usually feel its urgent. It takes a lot of my emotional st

We had another amazing conversation in the car yesterday. This time: 1) how did they put another heart in our neighbor? and 2) How does God make a soul? We'd been in the car less than five minutes when our recently-turned-6-year-old just casually mentioned that he heard (thanks, Abi) our neighbor was very sick but was lucky enough to get a heart from a young girl who had died. Our middle kiddo immediately responded with: "What?" This is typical of our baby girl. She heard him

I was first introduced to this idea when I worked at a Reggio-Emilia-inspired Quaker pre-school in Durham, North Carolina; an awesome...

Our first hour of school was on the road this morning. Literally. Our son was worried that the cool morning air would have been replaced...