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enough.
Posted by malindar in All About Mindy, Life, Reflection on January 20, 2014
lest anyone think that because i’ve been posting so often lately, i must always have deep, deep thoughts which may eventually become blog posts… …i am not thinking deeply today. actually, i’m maybe not thinking at all. (yeah, right.) i need days like that, though. and those days… they are few and far between. have […]
mercy.
Posted by malindar in All About Mindy, Life, Reflection on January 19, 2014
mer·cy noun \ˈmər-sē\ : kind or forgiving treatment of someone who could be treated harshly : kindness or help given to people who are in a very bad or desperate situation : a good or lucky fact or situation (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mercy) sometimes the things that happen in and around my life catch me completely off guard. i […]
brave
Posted by malindar in All About Mindy, Family Life, Joe, Kids, Life on January 17, 2014
today i sent my daughter with my husband on a field trip. a field trip on which i could not bring myself to go. i know, you’re thinking, “umm, what’s up with THAT? aren’t you her TEACHER??” (actually you’re probably just like, “whatever, would you get to the point, please?”) yes. i am. but this […]
reaction.
Posted by malindar in All About Mindy, Family Life, Homeschooling, Reflection, unschooling on January 15, 2014
this morning, as we puttered around the kitchen over breakfast and baby and dog interruptions and simmering stir fry, Bryson commented, “it feels like Saturday.” he sat finishing up his chocolate chip pancakes and laughing about how sore his abs were from the pull-ups and push-ups he did on Monday (out of his norm, but […]
nuts.
Posted by malindar in All About Mindy, Family Life, Kids, Life, Reflection on January 14, 2014
so what do you do, say, when people think you’re nuts? i’m throwing this question out there because…i don’t have a good answer for it. my immediate response to adversity, especially when i feel attacked, is to go on the defensive. i quote. i reference. i rack my brain. i organize my arguments while i […]
conversation.
Posted by malindar in All About Mindy, Family Life, Homeschooling, Kids, Life, Reflection, unschooling on January 13, 2014
some interesting things happen when you open yourself up to (mostly) uninterrupted time with your kids. time when you’re not nagging them to finish science or hounding them about the math assignment they’ve been putting off, or scolding them for not completing their chores when it’s 8:30 and time to sit down for class. all […]
controversy.
Posted by malindar in All About Mindy, Family Life, Homeschooling, Kids, Life, unschooling on January 12, 2014
there is this little part of me that really enjoys stirring up trouble. it’s actually kind of funny to think that’s true, because i was always the good girl. always the one my parents didn’t have to worry about. my grades were above average, i didn’t push the boundaries, i didn’t break curfew or talk […]
processing.
Posted by malindar in All About Mindy, Homeschooling, Kids, Life, unschooling on January 11, 2014
with any research endeavor, the biggest job of getting from what you know now to what you want to know involves sifting through the vast enormity of information available on the topic. as with any Google search, i am overwhelmed by the amount of information found where i started–the very broad topic of “unschooling” (also, the […]
decision.
Posted by malindar in All About Mindy, Life, Reflection on January 1, 2014
i did it. i figured it out. well, i should probably say, “i read it someplace and stole it.” that would be more true. because apparently everyone else was blogging about not having new years resolutions yesterday too. go figure. i’ve read a bunch of them now. (they’re generally all better than mine. grammatically, technically…and […]
more grace in the new year.
Posted by malindar in All About Mindy, Fitness, Life, Weight Loss, workout on December 31, 2013
warning: parenthesis to follow. many of them. if you and i are friends, you know i talk in parenthesis as much as i write in them, so none of this will come as a shock to you. but just in case you stumbled upon my blog randomly…consider yourself warned. a really (really, really) long time […]
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