Month: April 2017

Rainy Days ~ A Simple Pleasure

Rainy Days ~ A Simple Pleasure

I love rain. Rainy days make me feel like nesting. Maybe that’s because God is taking care of my watering chores, and when I have seeds sown and new plants getting established, I especially appreciate the help that a good soaking rain gives them. Rainy days give this gardener time to catch up on a little …

On the Hunt for Redbuds and Phlox

On the Hunt for Redbuds and Phlox

Now that spring has arrived, I’ve been really busy gardening like a mad woman. In my flower garden I’ve been weeding and pulling up grass, as well as planting and transplanting. One of the corners of the front yard has been neglected, and while working out there I kept thinking about what it needed. I finally …

A Green Thumb Grows

A Green Thumb Grows

It was such a beautiful day! All week I had been looking forward to spending time in my flower garden. I hadn’t been able to spend very much time out there recently. It was something I just had to do, for my own well-being as well as for the garden’s. As I was sitting out …

Homeschool Heroes ~ An Interview with J. Michael Smith of HSLDA

Homeschool Heroes

I’m partnered with Home Educators Association of Virginia (HEAV) to help promote their June, 2017, homeschool convention and had the honor of interviewing one of this year’s keynote speakers, J. Michael Smith of Home School Legal Defense Association. He, along with his friend, Michael Farris, founded HSLDA in 1983, when, as an attorney and homeschooling father, he …