Spilled Milk Blog

  • Our 2020 printable summer read-aloud list is here!

    Our 2020 printable summer read-aloud list is here!

    We’re excited to share our 2020 printable summer read-aloud list with you all! With pools closing or limiting attendance, camps cancelled, and so many other disappointments for our kids this summer, we’re trying to look for the silver lining…and (ahem) some activities that will keep them busy during these long days. So, we’ve created this Read more

  • Reading the Bible in a Year | June reading plan

    Reading the Bible in a Year | June reading plan

    We’re wrapping up another month in 2020, and we feel weary with the heaviness of the world right now. COVID-19 is still limiting our ability to connect in real life with friends and family. Jobs and finances are serious stressors for many of us. And in the last week, the struggle for racial equality has Read more

  • five good things | quarantine worry + feeding our kids + the best cookies in Nashville

    five good things | quarantine worry + feeding our kids + the best cookies in Nashville

    Each week we hope to share a few things that have encouraged or inspired us as women, as parents, and as people of faith. We hope they brighten your day too. Related: How to turn all this quantity time into quality time…without losing your mind Caroline wrote about worry in the time of quarantine, and Read more

  • A lament for spring

    A lament for spring

    My daughter sits in the backyard, digging through mud, her clothes stained with dirt and her face strained with focus. I reach for my phone and flick it on. Tap Instagram. An acquaintance is organizing her Tupperware to a Spotify playlist she made just for the quarantine.  I stand, stretching out the ache, and plod Read more

  • How to turn all this quantity time into quality time…without losing your mind in the process.

    How to turn all this quantity time into quality time…without losing your mind in the process.

    This post is based on a talk we gave to the Moms & More preschool moms group at Christ Presbyterian Church. Week 1 of the quarantine: we’re rearranging our homes to start the new and exciting, if unexpected, process of homeschooling our kids. We’re sitting by the fire and reading books. We created a sourdough Read more

  • five good things | abundant life + being the fun parent + reality tv

    five good things | abundant life + being the fun parent + reality tv

    Each week we hope to share a few things that have encouraged or inspired us as women, as parents, and as people of faith. We hope they brighten your day too. This post may contain affiliate links that earn us a small commission. More like this: The things that entertained us in 2019. Oh to Read more