Category Archives: Poetry

Another year has just begun, With a desire to start a new, To change the things you feel the need, Will make a better you. Stronger bones and sharper minds, Bad habits to break for good, In everything, to seek Him first, As we always should. Reach out your hand, embrace the day, For each one is brand new, Look to Him who knows you best. It will make a better you. ©2008 Virginia Donahue

01Charger is hosting one of the 12 Blogs of Christmas contests.  Her contest is to write an essay or poem about what you enjoy most about homeschooling. Here is my entry. The alarm goes off, it’s morning again. Time to get ready for school. Breakfast is made and we sit down to eat, Togetherness is our fuel. We dress as we like in slippers or socks, No need to rush out the door, We take … Continue reading →

So much to do, So little time, I often think, I’ll lose my mind. Cookies to bake, Gifts to buy, Have we forgotten, The reason why? Presents to wrap, Boxes to send, The crazy mad rush, For the list to end. Decorations to hang, Houses to clean, Have we forgotten, What it really means? Take a deep breath, Then let it out, Think of the reason, It’s all about. The gifts, the glitter, The family … Continue reading →

I wrote this poem for last year’s family newsletter that we send out each Christmas. It is one of my very favorites. I wonder what it was like, In a field so far away, To hear the angels singing, On that first Christmas day. I wonder what it was like, Traveling far from home, To give birth to a baby, That could never be my own. I wonder what it was like, To have no … Continue reading →