This idea started when my son, his friend, and I went to visit their high school Literature teacher who taught at our homeschool co-op. Mrs. E has a deep, extensive knowledge of English Literature and teaches American, British, and Classic Lit, along with Shakespeare, and Old and New Testament Survey. But after almost 30 years…
One of the reasons I love my bullet journal is the lists and notes I keep on the back pages. Each year when I’m setting my journal up, I also flip to the back and add important pages there. My 2022 back pages FLYlady zone cleaning trackerI also have listed on the next pages all…
Back in 2018 I realized I needed some help starting my new year goals. After many years of failure on habit goals (reading the Bible, praying, tracking spending, etc) that I needed to work on the habit of developing habits. I couldn’t keep doing what I have always been doing (or not doing) in my…
In this next in the bullet journal series (you can see part 1 here), let’s take a minute to discuss how you will be using your bullet journal. That starts with a big question: Why do you want to bullet journal? Here are the main ways I use my bullet journal. To stay on top…
Welcome to the first post of my new 2023 series on starting and keeping a bullet journal. This year will be my 10th year of Bullet journaling, which started when I watched this video. In this first article for the series we’re going over what you’ll need to set up your own journal. I recommend…
It’s November again and that means looking around the house and checking my goals to see what I can make a big push to finish. We have two and a half more weeks in November and I’m going to try to finish three outstanding projects that aren’t too huge, but will require intentional effort. Project…
Bullet Journal plans for 2023 Next year will be my 10th year of bullet journaling! A decade of my life is now recorded in Bullet Journals. So, I was thinking that’s a pretty big milestone, and based on all the questions and comments I’ve gotten over the years, maybe 2023 will be a good time…
Here in Oregon, we went from summer to winter in about a week. My garden loved the extra warm days of October, and it eeked out a few more tomatoes and green beans, but all the fall planted lettuce quickly went to seed. But we are solidly into the colder, rainy days (shhhh, don’t tell…
Lately I’ve been meditating on hope. I want to really know what hope is (not just nod and assent to a vague definition of the word). What does hope like with work boots on, not all dressed up for church? How is hope lived out in every day ordinary life? What does it look like…
Bullet Journal I set up my October journal pages (late, but at least I did it!), and kept them pretty simple. The first page is going to be filled in with doodles of memories, like framed pictures on a wall. I’ll write in a verse I’m trying to memorize on the bottom of the page….