Last year when we adopted our two sweet children, we sort of went into “survival” mode. Both children had emotional issues, and they need weekly behavioral therapy. Bella was enrolled in a therapy school, and Casey had physical, occupational, and speech therapy. I was spending hours and hour each day on the road. I was… [Continue Reading]
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How to Find Time to Clean During Your Day: Balanced Series Day 6
How to Find an Hour’s Worth of Cleaning Time in the Random Moments of Your Day I don’t have hours a day to clean . . . although since I have a college-aged son, a husband, a grandma, and three kids six-years-old and under at home, I wish I did! Take advantage of the random… [Continue Reading]
Taking Care of Your Calendar, So Your Calendar Takes Care of You: Balanced Series Day 5
Taking Care of Your Calendar, So Your Calendar Takes Care of You I have a best friend I connect with every day. I check in with her, and she gives me guidance. I need lots of guidance. OK, it’s not really a “she” but an “it.” It’s my calendar, and I give her/it a lot of… [Continue Reading]
How To Know God’s Call For Your Life: Balanced Series Day 4
How To Know God’s Call For Your Life For the last twenty years I’ve balanced many things: being a writing, homeschooling my kids, and working with a crisis pregnancy center/teen mom support group. For most of the years I thought THOSE THINGS were my “ministry.” After all, those were the things that impacted others, drew… [Continue Reading]
How My Little Kids Help Me In My Work: Balanced Series Day 3
How My Little Kids Help Me In My Work I’ve had kids in the home for twenty-four years. I’ve been writing (working) from home for twenty years. So everything I’ve accomplished as an author has been with kids at home. My kids help me in with my work—they really do. They give me material to… [Continue Reading]
How to Make Working from Home Work: Balanced Series Day 2
How to Make Working from Home Work Over the years I’ve put a lot of thought, sacrifice, and even money into figuring how to make working from home work. Just yesterday I was telling a friend, “How amazing is it that I get to do what I love [write] while also getting to spend a… [Continue Reading]
Work-at-Home Mom and Work-at-Home Dad
We’ve launched a new adventure in the Goyer home. My husband, John, has a new job and has started working from home. Since I work at home as an author, that makes two of us. Yet, even though we’re both at home, our “styles” are amazingly different. Offices: Both John and I have offices. Just… [Continue Reading]