Positively (Im)perfect

Written and published on December 16th, 2012. Archived to previous year.  It's impossible to jump right in to evaluating this past week without acknowledging what's defined it for all of us. I wish, like the rest of the world, for some sort of explanation, some way to understand the tragedies of the world that make no sense. I don't have any words of wisdom or answers to the questions we all ask when bad things happen to the innocent. In fact, I don't really have much at all to say, because there just is no way to quantify that feeling we all have, the tightness in our chest or the ache in our heart. But I will say the few things that I know to be true, and also echo my sentiments from this reflection I wrote on loss , as well as these thoughts I shared after the shooting at the movie theater a few miles from our home: I know there is good in the world. I know that God loves every last one of us more than we can fathom, even more than those parents love their beaut

Written and published on December 10th, 2012. Archived to previous year.  A link-up of Goals and Accomplishments! Evaluation from  last week : Okay, so Christmas cards are (mostly-ish) addressed and in the mail. Do you see why it usually takes me until February to get these things done? Three weeks running it has been my goal to get these puppies done and I'm still dragging it out. But they will be finished before Christmas this year. They will be! I did get cracking on the reading corner, though...made a few adjustments to the plan that will make it even better--just waiting on some materials now! ~MOTIVATION~  What did I accomplish last week? First of all, I clearly did not accomplish getting around to the rest of you lovely linker ladies' blogs last week! Sorry! So I'm planning on catching up this week on my reading to see all the awesome ways you made it count! As for what I did accomplish, I updated about a million addresses during the Christmas Card

Written and published on December 3rd, 2012. Archived to previous year.  A link-up of Goals and Accomplishments! Evaluation from  last week : Well, I got my Christmas cards (mostly!)  finished. I got the pictures, wrote the letter, and made our printer do a WHOLE lot of work. Now I just have to stuff envelopes and address them all. And so far I haven't been too stressed--hopefully I can keep it that way! ~MOTIVATION~  What did I accomplish last week? This week went slightly differently than planned...I don't relish taking three kids to the doctor during naptime, but we ruled out strep throat and they were perfectly fine and chipper as ever by the end of the week. And the trip to the doctor's office was a definite accomplishment! I also did the Christmas card thing, went to a meeting, and had a full weekend with a holiday party at our local historic mansion (pretty cool!) and a fabulous "Friendsgiving" with our amazing new family of friends. I also c