A Little Bit of Glamour

What a thrill to be here!

I was honored to be asked to blog here during Elizabeth’s exciting trip to Rome. When she emailed about it, I figured this was about as close to actually taking a trip to Rome as I am likely to get in the foreseeable future, and I was not about to turn it down.

Besides, who can resist a chance to be The Anchoress? Or at least play pretend.

Even if I have to share this spot with those two other ladies (love you guys!) and even if the Real Anchoress might pop in here now and then to blog exotic European things that will make my latest entries appear embarrassingly quotidian, I have already instructed my kids (and husband too, but I have less control over him) to address me properly for the next two weeks:

Madame Anchoress it shall be.

Not to worry, though, none of this is going to my head.

Even if I am playing Madame Anchoress, these late days of summer will find me knee-deep in the somewhat less than glamorous life of a homeschooling mom of eight kids who is also crazy enough to attempt to work from her home.

I will be poring over lesson plans, typing emails at midnight, scrubbing sticky pasta pots, and searching in vain for the box of bandaids. I will be perilously parking my 12-passenger van, shooing black bears away from our chicken coop, and occasionally saying things like “You are going to eat that. I don’t care who licked it,” “Tell me those tiny bits of paper under the table are not the plumber’s cell phone number” and “Whoever swats that fly gets a pack of gum.”

All glamour, all the time.

All of this to say, I am thrilled to be blogging here with you. I will cross -posting some stuff from my other cyber-spots and, since that feels like cheating, adding a bit of fresh content here too. It is my hope that you and I will have some fruitful conversations and maybe even a little bit of fun during the Real Anchoress’s absence.

After all, we can’t all be in Rome, can we?