What’s New in the New Year

Today’s podcast episode title comes from a Charlotte Mason quote: “Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life.”  Over the next few episodes, I’ll be unpacking how the three words (atmosphere, discipline, and life) are helping me to direct my goals for our home and family in the New Year.  Today’s word: atmosphere.   Links/Resources Mentioned […]

Sorry I fell off the face of the earth for awhile there!  Some bug took us out of commission, and I decided to take a little break for Christmas.  I’m happy to be back to releasing weekly episodes in the New Year! Links/Resources Mentioned This Episode: Some Lines a Day: The 5-Year Memory Book  Join […]

Hooray!  It’s the interview you all have been waiting for!  This week, I’m thrilled to share my conversation with Jami Wilson and Stefanie Urbom from Empower Physical Therapy.  Jami and Stefanie are physical therapists who specialize in pelvic floor physical therapy, and they took on all of your questions in this episode! Links/Resources Mentioned in […]

I’ve been on a little journey with social media, and I did a little deep dive on all of that this week.  I went through my history with joining Facebook, starting my blog in early motherhood, becoming an online contributor CatholicMom, joining Instagram, starting the podcast, reevaluating all of it, and where I am with […]

This week’s episode was inspired by some listener feedback from Michelle!  She has a 16-month-old and wants to know what my reading life looks like.  I shared all about how I find book titles, how I get the actual books, how I track them, when I find the time to read, and what keeps me […]

Philip and I did a quick solo road trip today, so we thought we’d recorded an impromptu episode together!  We had a great conversation about discipline: what we used to do, what did/didn’t work, what discipline looks like lately for us, and some concluding thoughts.  I got a little weepy at the end when I […]

Our family has taken a unique approach to how we let our kiddos read the Harry Potter book series, and I brought my 11-year-old son, Walter, on the show to talk about it.  We talked about the magic of the wizarding world, why fairytales make for wonderful reading, how the books turned him into a voracious […]

We started doing a “Sabbath Schedule” in our homeschool this year.  We do 6 weeks of school, and then we take 1 week (called a Sabbath Week) off.  We use that time to do all of the things we aren’t able to during our school weeks.  We recently had our first sabbath week, so I […]

Have you ever done interval training to meet a fitness goal?  Have you ever considered working in shorter sprints within the framework of your family and home calendar?  That’s what I’ve been doing since the start of the school year, and I am loving it!  This episode is all about how I’m implementing interval training […]

Has your body never been quite the same since giving birth?  Do you experience ongoing pain or discomfort?  Have you accepted peeing with each sneeze as your new normal?  This episode is for you!  I share very candidly about my experience with childbirth and the roller coaster ride my body has been on for the […]