January 8, 2023

Screen Free Childhood – One Year On

8 January 2023

This week our four children (7, 5, 3 and 1) will have been screen free for a year. A YEAR! I didn’t tell anyone that

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There are 36374638 things that I do each day for m

There are 36374638 things that I do each day for my family as a wife, mother, homemaker and educator because I know that they are important and serve my family. I clean, do laundry, cook, kiss bumped knees, change diapers, load and unload the dishwasher more times that you would think is possible. I teach and correct and organize and drive and cook again. The list goes on.

Yet in all of the busy work it is SO easy to forget to do the most impactful thing that I can do for them. Pray.

I desperately want to be the mother and wife that takes time each day to pray over each one of my children and thank God for them and the same for J and our marriage… but it just wasn’t happening.

That is why this year I started committing to praying for each one of them as I made their bed each morning. Something that I don’t forget to do - because I can see it!

When I take that time in prayer I am reminded of the big picture which is so valuable in these little years of diapers and bumps and sticky hands.

✨ “This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us” (1 John 5 v 14) ✨

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Arlo - “Mum when I am a man I am going to marry

Arlo - “Mum when I am a man I am going to marry you”

Me - “oh Arlo. That is so sweet but I am already married to Dad!”

Arlo - “well… *pause* … when he dies I will marry you” 😳😱

You should be worried @jonolikesthis

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About as close to ‘school uniform’ as this hom

About as close to ‘school uniform’ as this home educating family is going to get ✌🏻😉 #wyliediaries

B 👏🏻 F 👏🏻 F 👏🏻#wyliediaries

B 👏🏻 F 👏🏻 F 👏🏻#wyliediaries

One month later … ✈️ ✨ HOMETIME ✨🇺🇸 These kids have been the absolute best little travelers. Hours and hours in the air and on the road and they have been amazing. That said … I am ready to not leave home for a while 😴 😉#wyliediaries

An afternoon in the Burns unit getting Sonny’s l

An afternoon in the Burns unit getting Sonny’s little hands treated and bandaged. He has been such a champ through this 👊🏻 Hopefully he can start healing well and we can keep infections away 🙏🏻 He has at least a couple of weeks of bandaged hands ahead of him and some exercises that he will need to start once he gets some more movement to make sure that the skin doesn’t heal too tight and restrict the movement that he has in his hands 😳🥴

Swimming in blessing over here 🏊🏻‍♀️ …❤️ #wyliediaries