This should have been my first post.  I meant it to be.  Honest.  But I typed it into the “About” page.  In the middle of the night, I realized what I’d done, and thought, “Hmmm.  I better go change that around in the morning” – only to find that it had gotten lost while I navigated around in the previous night’s attempts at figuring this thing out. 😦  So, I’ll have to attempt to reconstruct.  Ah, the learning curve!

One of the quotes I have on my study wall says, “To most people, solutions are answers.  To chemists, solutions are things that are all mixed up.”  The older I get, the more I realize how much I resemble both of those definitions.  With 51 years of life, virtually all of it as a believer (since I don’t remember ever NOT believing), 29 years of marriage, 26 years of parenting, 22 years of homeschooling, and almost 2 years of grandparenting under my belt, there are plenty of questions about life and parenting and relationships that I feel reasonably certain that I have some handle on and perhaps even, by God’s grace, wisdom to share.  However, with all that experience, I also run into more and more questions that lead me to …. more and more questions, leaving me befuddled and confoozled and not always sure which way is up.

Life itself is like those definitions.  Sometimes it makes sense, sometimes it’s a confusion, and sometimes it seems to be somehow both at the same time!  I am trying to learn to accept those contradictions, even to embrace them, rather than trying to force life to be understandable.  So, the point of this blog will be exploring life’s solutions – constants and conundrums, mysteries and muddles, ponderings and pronouncements.   Off we go!