Welcome to my blog on topics about keeping the home – or attempting to – as a Gen X Mom of four and wife to one. :) This blog is written by me, Lori Seaborg, from the Florida-Alabama Gulf Coast. I\'m not the person who is ahead of you in mothering and homemaking knowledge. I\'m just the gal right beside you, motivating the 11yo daydreamer, keeping up with the 9yo future homemaker extraordinaire (every mama needs a helper like this one!), teaching the rascally 6-year-old while occupying the 3yo. Let\'s learn together!
On FreelyEducate.com, my high quality – 100% free – educational finds blog, Krampf.com is giving away two memberships to his science website. It’s a great giveaway! All you need to do to enter is leave a comment at FreelyEducate.com. Here’s the link: http://www.freelyeducate.com
And on Just Pure Lovely, the blog that took over Keeping the Home, I posted about our inside-out-and-backwards wearing boy and our daughter who reads her mama and whom I’d never give away.
by Lori Seaborg 2008
Hey, there, everyone!
I just noticed today that I never gave you the URL to my new front porch. It’s at my domain name, LoriSeaborg.com
I’m at my new blog nearly daily, Just Pure Lovely, where I write about the things that inspire me (but sometimes also the not-so-fun things, because that’s part of motherhood).
I really hope you’ll visit me (or that you already do!)
by Lori Seaborg 2008
Oh, goodness, I’ve had such a time with my new blog showing up because I was trying to be fancy by using my own domain name.
But let’s just go here instead. This should work for you: http://justpurelovely.typepad.com
Don’t forget to change that in your readers!
Lori Seaborg 2006
Reach my new blog go to http://www.justpurelovely.typepad.com. I hope you’ll come!
It’s March 25, 2008 as I write. I will let you know when my front porch is open, which will be at LoriSeaborg.com. My blog, however will remain at the above location.
Thank you so much for coming to visit me at my new space!
by Lori Seaborg 2008
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was a curious woman. I sure wish we could sit down to tea one day; I’m sure I could learn so much from her. She and I have at least one thing in common: Curiosity. She said,
"I think, at a child’s birth,
if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift,
that gift would be curiosity."
I agree! In homeschool we have a beautiful opportunity to allow our children to follow their curiosity. We can’t know what God is leading their spirit to explore, so let’s let them explore! The same with you. Allow yourself to explore the things that are stirring up your heart and your mind.
Mrs. Roosevelt said something else about curiosity that makes me smile. I can identify so much with this:
"I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on.
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."
I enjoy a fireside, especially with my hands busy with knitting or my mind busy with reading, but that’s not her point. Her point, I think, is that we cannot allow ourselves to sit and say "I can’t" while we watch others live and do what we could also enjoy.
This year I’m focusing on the positive, as I wrote a few days ago. I’m also more free this year than I’ve been in 12 years of child-rearing. Our littlest gal will be 5 years old next month, and although I’m so sorry to see the baby years behind us, I may as well dwell on the positive part of that instead of the negative, so I may as well get excited about all the free time I finally have!
Time to follow my whims. My interests. My curiosity. I can’t wait to follow my curiosity more, both with the children and without them.
I didn’t realize I was going to write about curiosity tonight. I was just thinking of Mrs. Roosevelt while working on my new site today. What new site, you ask?
I have begun blogging at a new site where I can upload more photos (I love photography) and designs (I love art) and crafting excursions (I love … you know what I’m going to say!). If I feel a lengthy "text" post coming on, I’ll probably post it at the blog I write weekly for Precious Moments (called Precious Moms), which will also get many reruns from the last several years that I’ve been blogging. I will, of course, leave the archives open here. Readers still somehow find them through Google searches.
But, mostly, I will be at my own domain: Just Pure Lovely . Know why I named my new blog that?)
And thank you so very, very much to HomeschoolBlogger for great years here and to the many readers I met through this blog. I hope all of you will come to my new site to visit!
by Lori Seaborg 2008
Lori Seaborg, Keeping the Home