2009 Bloggy Recap
Looking at the first sentence of the first post of each month in 2009 was an interesting trip down Memory Lane for me.
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- January: The Ring My daughter showing off her engagement ring!
- February: Today my two sweet sisters-in-law along with my mother-in-law threw a lovely wedding shower for our Amanda. Prelude to my daughter’s Valentine’s Day wedding!
- March: In 12 minutes a lady is supposed to be here to help me pick out tile and vinyl for our new (old, flooded) bathroom, so I can’t talk long. Seems the wedding took all my brain cells, because a week later I flooded the whole bathroom. Royally.
- April: I’ve written before about Bible memory work Although I don’t feature our monthly verse in my sidebar anymore, we’re still plugging away with memorizing. This month (and last) was Psalm 147.
- May: I hope and pray y’all aren’t getting sick of me linking to the Compassion bloggers, but really, how could I NOT link this these posts??? A couple of wonderful posts from bloggers who saw the work of Compassion International in India.
- June: We’re flying 34,000 feet over Anchorage, headed for Seoul, South Korea, and I’m wondering how this trip will be. The start of my trip to Seoul with three of my sons.
- July: 143,000,000. Orphans, that is. Can you do something about that?
- August: John and I had our first daughter in 1988, back when homeschooling was still far from mainstream. Explaining how we unexpectedly became a homeschooling family.
- September: In previous years I’ve done a big shop the day before the beginning of the spending challenge and counted it as the previous month’s budget. The start of the September grocery spending challenge.
- October: We had a busy day, with school, yard work, and running a few errands. The end of the September grocery spending challenge.
- November: To-Do list scrawled in a spiral notebook on a Sunday night, long enough to wrap around the block. Pondering just how much a body can get done in a day.
- December: I stood at the kitchen counter tearing open an envelope from our adoption agency, unaware that inside was a picture of my daughter. More about adoption. And AIDS. And activism.
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The idea for this post came from FiddleDeeDee and Musings of a Housewife
Hi Mary,
Thank you so much for writing the book on raising a large family. Our library ordered it for me and I recently finished it and returned it so another friend could borrow it. The library has your $75 feasts on order for me too, which is so nice of them!
Blessings,
Hannah
Where’s part 2 of your homeschooling story???? I totally got into it and can’t find the second part….: )
Hi Mindy,
Here are a couple of other homeschooling posts:
http://www.owlhaven.net/2009/08/05/homeschooling-why-we-stuck-with-it/
http://www.owlhaven.net/2009/08/24/homeschooling-what-curriculum-do-you-use/
Mary
When I was a kid, I was forever starting and stopping a journal. I’ve been blogging non-stop for 3 1/2 years now. I can go back and read something that I would ordinarily have completely forgotten about (usually this is a good thing). I also love how I can go back and relive moments from my favorite blogger’s lives.
Thank you Mary, for being so faithful with your journal, um, blog. You are an inspiration for many. You certainly are for me.