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Cozily enjoying a little bit of my Sunday Sabbath

Cozily enjoying a little bit of my Sunday Sabbath while I get our homeschool plans out on paper for the week ahead ✨

We’ve got two more weeks left in term two of Year 4 and Year 1, and my plan is to move right into term three for a few weeks before we settle into another short break.

Our first week back into lessons was just the refresh we needed to get back into our rhythms and routines around the home, though, of course with a few bumps along the way.

🎙️ Many of you shared you were also starting up homeschool lessons again last week after a long break! How was your first week back? Did you ease into lessons or jump all in?

Happy New Year friends! I posteponed sharing my

Happy New Year friends!

I posteponed sharing my 2025 reading plans until after the new year because I personally needed every last minute in 2024 to hit my reading goals 😆

I shared how mid-year, 2024 brought a reading slump, so by the time I climbed out of that, we were heading full speed into birthday season, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Typically, that’s when I tend to naturally slow down my reading to make room for the holiday season. Then, we got hit with 3 weeks of illness and I feel like we’re just now emerging out from that.

So, to say our 3 week long homeschool break felt more like a blur than restful and enjoyable is the understatment of our 2024. However, we tried to make the most of it the best we could.

Now that it’s 2 days into 2025, and with a few days left in our break, I finally sat down to write out my 2025 Mother Culture Reading Plans and it’s now live on the blog! 🎉

Link in my bio!

My friends at @artzabox gifted me a beautifully cu

My friends at @artzabox gifted me a beautifully curated holiday Holy Land subscription box full of meaningful treasures from artisans and businesses across Israel!

Let’s take a peek at what’s inside:

🍵 Winter Tea Cider Infusion – made with locally grown herbs and spices 🕯️ Hand-dipped Natural Beeswax Candles – perfect for cozy evenings all winter long 🙌🏼 Lavido Hand & Foot Creams – smells like a luxurious spa in a bottle! 🥔 Roast Potato Spice Blend + Recipe – I’m looking forward to adding this to a few holiday dishes! 🍫 Chocolate Date Snacks – a unique and tasty treat for when hosting guests 🌟 Star of David Mosaic Kit – a fun craft I know my kids will enjoy! 🪨 Ahava Stone – crafted by survivors of the Nova Festival massacre, this Ahava stone symbolizes resilience, hope, and light. Inscribed in Hebrew with the phrase “At the end of the light, there is more light,” it serves as a powerful reminder that no matter where you are—whether in moments of joy or challenge—there is always more light ahead.

Artza is a subscription box that directly supports small Israeli businesses, while connecting you to the Holy Land through thoughtful gifts.

These would make excellent Christmas gifts for friends and family! Head over to @Artzabox to shop their subscription boxes or individual gifts.

#holyland #ArtzaBox #subscriptionbox #homeschoolmom #homeschoolchristmas #adventhomeschool

What I’m reading lately 🕯️✨📖 Yesterda

What I’m reading lately 🕯️✨📖

Yesterday I shared about my reading slump, and some ways I’m finding my way back into the pages of my books. (One post back)

Some of these books have been sitting in my mother culture basket for months, some are re-reads, while others are books I’ve been eager to read, finally having them available on my Kindle.

📖 The Women by Kristen Hannah
🕯️Quiet: The power of introverts in a world that can’t stop talking by Susan Cain
📚Together is a Beautiful Place by Bailey Hurley
🧺The Life Impossible by Matt Haig
📖The Gift of Limitations by Sara Hagerty
🕯️Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
📚Weyward by Emilia Hart
🧺Of Literature and Lattes by Katherine Reay

Have you read any of these? Any of them on your TBR list?

Confession— I’ve been in a reading slump. It

Confession— I’ve been in a reading slump.

It’s been going on for months, and I (jokingly) told my husband that I don’t know who I am anymore because I haven’t picked up a book and read consistently for a long while.

Now, I know my identity isn’t in my book reading, but reading is something that I genuinely enjoy doing, whether I have to make the time or when I have free time.

So how did I get into a reading slump?

I think it was a number of things, that began last year. The loss of two grandmothers during the holiday season, the health of my youngest, my own health, dealing with loneliness, and just trying to stay afloat in an ever-going lifestyle in the midst of everything.

While I’m a huge advocate to keeping habits of reading in my life (outside my Bible reading), I hadn’t in the time where I thought I would have needed it most.

Despite the challenges and trials, I’m slowly finding my way back into the pages of my books and here’s a few ways I’m coming out of a long reading slump:

📖 Revisiting old favorites. While some might find this the perfect opportunity to grab a new book, my stamina to find my next new read is so low, that revisiting old favorites, in any genre, takes little mental effort, and revisiting beloved books from my shelves reminds me why I love reading in the first place.

🕯️Set small goals. I needed to zoom in on my reading goals, focusing on daily reading, rather than zooming out on monthly or even a whole week’s worth of reading. I zoom in even further and aim for just 10 short minute increments in the morning, in the afternoon, and again in the evening, increasing the amount of time when it makes sense, but not feeling bad about my goal if 10 minutes is all I can give.

🎧Audiobooks vs music. In these last several months, my ear buds have been filled with music rather than podcasts or audiobooks. Though my heart and soul truly feel nourished in lyrics of music in this season, I began listening to an audiobook again during dinner prep and it’s been an easy way to get in some chapters.

🎙️ What are some of your favorite ways to get back into a reading groove? 📚🕯️🧺

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