I wanted to share just a couple of links of interesting reading discovered in the last week or two:

The Headmistress at The Common Room has an excellent post titled Home-Making on Purpose in response to a disillusioned, discouraged homemake who had “thought that since she had been very good at her very complex previous career, staying at home ought to be something she just took to naturally, without any thought, preparation, planning, or training” and had had visions of “doing nothing but joyfully creative things” and that “being a sahm was going to look an awful lot like Ozzie and Harriet, only with more fun stuff.” There is a lot of great advice in response.

The Nester has 10 Ways to Avoid Having a Home You’ll Love — excuses or easily-removed hindrances.

I can amen Chris Anderson’s Sweetness of Speech Increases Persuasiveness.

And I am not familiar with Domestic Felicity blog, but enjoyed this post about Falling in love through the blessing of children found through a link at Breathing Grace, detailing how married love can increase rather than be hindered when children come along.

Janet at Across the Page tagged me a while back for a 5th Photo Meme. Sorry it has taken me so long to respond, Janet — it’s been a busy couple of weeks! The instructions are to “Find your 5th photo file folder, then the 5th photo in that file folder. Then pass the meme to 5 people.”

You’d think that would be straightforward enough, but when I click on “My Pictures,” it has photo files mixed in with downloaded clip art. Then, another way of looking through them, this is the actual 5th photo — though it is also the first. I don’t know why it is repeated:

This is my middle son, Jason, with his fiancee, Mittu.

If I count that one as a double, then the 5th photo is this one:

This is Jason and Jeremy celebrating their birthdays together at the end of last summer when Jason came back from working at camp for the summer. He had been away for both of them and Jeremy’s was, I believe, right before Jason came back, so we waited and celebrated them both together. Jason’s pointing toward the “21” because that’s his age — the numbers are reversed from the way they are sitting. I guess I could have had them reverse places. 🙂

Coming at the pictures from this post, though, I get completely different results, but I’ll leave it at that. Forgive me — I’m overly analytical. 🙂

I have seen this around and can’t remember who has already done it, so I won’t tag anyone, but feel free to do this one if you are interested!

I’ve had a very busy last couple of weeks, and next week our church has revival services which are busy in a different way, so I am planning on something of a lightweight day today, though there is laundry and such to be done. Hope you have a great Saturday!