And into a family of five! It has been quite a while, and I wasn’t sure I wanted to write anymore, but new developments have inspired me to begin again. In the last year we’ve increased our quaint little family of four to a family of five. Enter little Archer, who is now 4 months old and my favorite baby thus far. Like his older siblings, he’s not too keen on sleeping, but he’s so darn cute it’s hard to be upset with him. I won’t get into gushing over him or I may never stop.

Anyway, I have decided to renew my purposed writing for a few specific goals:

1) Homeschooling. Yup. I am going to be one of those weirdos. Only hopefully not too weird. I haven’t started sewing my own clothes yet, but they do make it look so easy on Project Runway that I have considered it. But in all seriousness, I would like to keep track of what I’m doing as I stumble into this new territory, and if I can provide comic relief for others while doing so, then I might as well, right?

2) The ABC’s of spices. In my endless hours of watching Chopped and other cooking shows, I’ve realized how uneducated I am on many spices, so I’d like to take on the challenge of learning more spices. In order to facilitate that, I’m going to go through the alphabet and pick a spice beginning with each letter and make a new recipe each week. We’ll see how it goes. Going to start next week. I hope.

3) How to actually be a good wife. What’s the standard? What can I do to be more like that? I’m going to warn you now–it’s gonna get a little religious, because I do believe that God has set forth some good guidelines and I want to look into those and study them. And if that offends you or you makes you feel squirmy, then just don’t read it! Or feel free to respond with respectful criticism and I promise to take you seriously. After all, this is a journey, and we all can use some challenges and feedback.

I feel like I had some other reasons to get back into this, but given that I haven’t slept for more than three hours at a time in the last four months, that’s all I can remember for now. And my kid-free time has ended so I better wrap it up anyway. I’m looking forward to this next chapter, but know that I won’t be writing daily. I know I’ll fail if I shoot for that, so look for a weekly post this time around!

See you soon…

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