Good advice

Remember that you only have to take one step at a time.
Breathe, baby.
Have fun!

In one IM conversation, these were the bits of advice I offered to a friend. Trite? Perhaps. Easy to say? Definitely. Bad advice? Not even close. Those are the Big Three for not only coping with but enjoying what life throws at you.

Here's one more: When things get stressful, remember the Big Three.

I think that's the hardest part.

Chloe's WABAC machine

Chloe just found the diary she kept during her final months in school before we started homeschooling. She says she devoted five pages to complaining about my insistence on her going to school one day in October even though she was sick. Three months later, we were unschooling.

This is why I don't plan too far ahead.