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I'm Sara, the voice behind Chasing Jupiter and mum to two young boys.
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  • “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” 🍂 -F. Scott Fitzgerald Goodbye summer, hello fall. 🍁
  • It looks peaceful, doesn’t it? Two brothers playing a board game. The oldest teaching the youngest. These are the moments I want to capture and keep. 🌿 _____________________ The before and after moments of this picture weren’t so peaceful. Everyone was feeling “off”. I had a headache, the youngest had been up throwing up the night before, and my oldest was bored and overly annoyed with his little brother. And my husband had been working long night shifts. My patience was thin. The whining and fighting amongst the two of them was pushing my limits and then there was this. A quiet moment in the chaos. 🌿 _____________________ It wasn’t long before the whining and fighting started up again. It was just one of those days. What I have learned is though is how I react during those days is very important. It defines the day. It will either make it or be the final straw that breaks it. I don’t always choose grace. But I need to. Not only for myself but for my children. 🌿 _____________________ Choosing grace may mean putting away the school books for the morning, changing the plans or doing away with them altogether. It may mean taking a nap, or going for a walk to the park. Maybe it’s having a movie day or serving your children by making their favourite meal. It could even mean powering through despite the challenges and using encouraging words to teach persistence. Whatever grace means for you today, embrace with open arms and know you’re making the best choice today for you and your family. ❤️
  • The weekend is here and we are continuing to soak up these last few days of summer. We have had unusually nice weather the past few weeks, and we’re still all in shorts so that’s a win. At least for Canada. 😉 How did everyone’s first two weeks back to school go??
  • “She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come.” -Proverbs 31:25 🌿_____________________ I am a worrier. My anxiety has been high for as long as I can remember. I overthink. I dwell on things that haven’t even happened yet. And I’m a mom. Enough said right? I’m pretty sure all this worrying nearly drove my husband crazy. I definitely was not in a place to laugh at the days to come. But I also knew this wasn’t a place I was meant to be in. So last year I made a choice to make some changes in my day. Life is to short to worry all the time, right? 🌿 _____________________ Since then I’ve been journaling and praying, I take frequent breaks from my blog and social media, I read more, listen to music, and do my best to get enough asleep (another thing that’s easier said than done when you’re a mom). I’ve found methods that worked and tried ones that didn’t. I’m still learning but there is one method I keep going back to. 🌿 _____________________ Whenever I feel the anxiety creep in or the worry build up, I ask myself, “Can I fix it right now? Can I make it better right now? Can I change anything, right now?” If the answer is no, I pray about it, Write it down if needed and then make a conscious decision to move on and focus on something else. 🌿 _____________________ It’s a work in progress, but it is working. My circumstances have not changed. I still have the same concerns, same life. But my attitude has changed. And I am finding joy and peace in the most unlikely situations. 🌿 _____________________ Are you worried about anything right now? What are some ways you find peace in moments of anxiousness and worry? What gives you joy when you think of the days ahead? #pressingpause ❤️
  • “The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.” -Laura Ingalls Wilder 🌿 I read each book in the Little House On the Prairie series as a child. I remember staying up late just to read one more chapter. I’m really excited to get the books out again next week as we begin a new read-aloud. Have you read this series? Do you plan on sharing it with your kids? 📚
  • My son learns best on his own. He is driven to learn, just not exactly what I think he should be learning or when he should be learning it. Knowing this, I only plan for math and language arts as subjects he needs to do each day. It often takes less than an hour. If I’m being completely honest, I struggle with this. I question this “part-time” unschooling approach daily. At his age, most kids are in school for at least 6 hours a day and I wonder, what is he missing? 🌿 _____________________ I know my son is learning the way he learns best. I am thankful for that. But I still wonder if I’m doing enough. Is he doing enough? Am I holding him back? 🌿 _____________________ I’m not really sure where I’m going with this, other than to say it’s okay to feel insecure about our choices sometimes. We’ve been programmed all our lives to think one way. But this way isn’t right for everyone, especially for our differently wired kids. 🌿 _____________________ Do you ever find yourself looking at what other families are doing and comparing it to your own? What do you do when you get caught up in the comparison game? 🌿
  • “Let children alone... the education of habit is successful in so far as it enables the mother to let her children alone, not teasing them with perpetual commands and directions - a running fire of Do and Don’t ; but letting them go their own way and grow, having first secured that they will go the right way and grow to fruitful purpose.” -Charlotte Mason 🌿
  • When it feels like the Monday-ist of Mondays it’s time to cut back on the chores and school work. Put on some music, play a game together, go for a walk, pull out the arts and crafts or just send the kids the outside. The rest of the math lesson will wait. And yes, I’m mainly saying this to myself because I often spend the weekend planning and the last thing I want to do is set everything aside the very first day of the week. But today, that’s exactly what we’re going to do. 🌿 How do Monday’s usually go in your house?
  • "A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove. But the world may be different, because I was important in the life of a child." -Forest E. Witcraft 🌿

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