Finding Joy 2 the Journey

Before I present this little poem I figured I would write a bit, since I see this a place to let out my creative juices flow and journal a bit. However, if you would like to just skip ahead, by all means, please scroll to the poem.  I feel honored to have grown up in a family with parents that encouraged creativity and journaling. I have always been taught and felt deeply that journalling comes in a variety of forms, it does not just have to be limited to writing a detailed account of daily activities. There are endless way to share your story, through writing, pictures, scrapbooks,  sewing, video, a short daily gratitude list, social media posts, and even poetry (there are more ways but we could be here all day).   From the title you probably have gathered this particular post is about poetry, yes, I journal through poetry. A few years back I was living far from home and going through a bit of a rough patch, I felt a little lonely and a little lost in the...

Hey all, with an effort to share more joy and blog more comes a new blog for our time, and for what so many are facing right now. This is no ordinary ramblings of my brain sort of blog, but a different sort of blog, today I am going to shake things up a bit by offering you all a guest blog.  My amazing mother, Cynthia, homeschooled all four of us crazy kiddos, and we kind of turned out alright! So, she knows first hand the struggle of the at home juggle. She has been through what a lot of you are going through right now as the call to teach from home has been issued. With this new call and this craziness many parents have been asking for  tips for teaching at home, mom has put together a great set of ten tips to help teach at home. Enjoy!  I am a mother of four children ages 28, 23, 20, 17. We began  homeschooling our children when my oldest was in fourth  grade. We needed to be able to travel in the winter since we own a business that speci...