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Reflections on motherhood, homeschooling, and everyday grace — the Hopkins family journal of the sweet and the simple.
Today I awoke early to the sounds of a sweet little girl smacking her lips and chewing on her fist. Nobody else would do, just mama. As the morning progressed a little boy got his head caught in his shirt and called…
I love Christmas. Truly, there isn’t one thing about it that I don’t love. I remember as a child loving all of it as well. Most of all, I loved the Christmas tree. Every year I looked forward to going out to the…
“Mommy, when is my hair going to be golden? I wish I was as pretty as a princess.” And so it begins. For 6 years, my sweet girl has lived in a world free from the evil of comparisons. She lived in a place where…
King Landon, while getting dressed for church, looked at himself in the mirror and said, “I look like a king!”. Then he put his hands in his pockets, turned and looked at me with a big smile and said, “Look Dad, I…
Sometimes I get lost. I get lost while driving to yet another random event. I get lost in my head, thinking of all the things that I have to do that day. I get lost in the mounds of school books, the mounds of…
Everyday it is so tempting to live inside my bubble. Temperature-controlled, attitude- controlled, volume-controlled, this home is my place of rest and refuge. In here it is cozy, it is safe. Here I am free to…
I brush the hair out of her face, because I love to look into her eyes. I remember the moment I first caught glimpse of the girl with the light blue eyes, framed with the thick blanket of lashes. Squished tight…
It was February 14th, Valentines day. Not just any Valentines day, but Aubrey Ann’s first Valentines day as a school-aged child, a Kindergartener. I heard Aubrey Ann busily working down the hall. She came out of her…
