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1 // PLANNING HELP FOR HOMESCHOOL
This will be my tenth homeschool year (!!) and I finally broke down and bought a planner versus making one myself. I decided to go with A Simple Plan homeschool planner because it was pretty, was spiral bound, and had everything I needed without a lot of the extras. (I don’t need a meal planner and chore chart in my homeschool planner, you know?) According to the reviews, the paper quality has decreased since last year, but I’m a simple gal and still found it to be satisfactory for my needs. So far, so good!
2 // A GREAT RECIPE TO USE UP THOSE CHERRY TOMATOES
We have been drowning in cherry tomatoes this summer! I’ve been using this recipe almost weekly to make pizza sauce and it’s been a hit. I need to learn how to use my pressure canner, so I can save some for this winter.
3 // THIS QUOTE
Start by making your own home a place where happiness and love abound, through your love for each member of your family and for your neighbor. Try to put in the hearts of your children a love for home. Make them long to be with their families. So much sin could be avoided if our people really love their homes. – Mother Teresa
4 // A NEW ALTERNATIVE TO GOODREADS
Have you heard of Storygraph? It’s a reading tracker website similar to Goodreads, but not owned by Amazon. If you like Goodreads for the community aspect, this site probably isn’t for you. However, if you need a place to keep track of what you’re reading, you may love it as much as I do. This nerd especially loves the statistics and graphs.
5 // OUR GO-TO BUG BITE RELIEF
After Bite has been in regular use around here this summer! Super easy to apply and it takes most of the sting away immediately. Just don’t scratch first – it burns!
Ashley,
That looks like a lovely planner. I’m not very good at planning, more like a fly by the seat of my pants kind of gal!
Anyhow, I know you appreciate good quotes, and since yesterday was the Feast of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, here are some wise and comforting words of hers that I know I’m not alone in needing:
“And when night comes, and you look back over the day and see how fragmentary everything has been, and how much you planned that has gone undone, and all the reasons you have to be embarrassed and ashamed: just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God’s hands and leave it with Him. Then you will be able to rest in Him – really rest – and start the next day as a new life.”
I wish I knew where this is in her writings, but I don’t recall where I found it.
God bless!
Melisa
Great quote!