Something that has been much on my mind lately–and much on the blogosphere for the past year or so–is early marriage. Seth and I got married when I was twenty. Most of the rest of the kids I went to church with that were my age got married years after I did. At the time I thought it was more…
Recently I read some discussions on the idea of being a stay-at-home wife–not a stay-at-home mom, but being just a married, childless woman who stays at home all day while her husband goes to work. It’s an idea that gets pretty highly criticized, often for good reasons.It’s also something I was for the two years between our move northward (when…
Today has been a definite “off” day–the kids were fussy, I woke up exhausted, naps went poorly, and my mom couldn’t come over for very long (during the summer she has been coming over a lot!). So, I thought it’d be a good opportunity to explain how my routine actually works out… on a bad day. Before breakfast, I set…