07 May What I’m Into: April 2016
Wow! I turn my back for a second and April is over? Just like that? What I’ve Been Doing . . . If we’re friends on Facebook or In Real Life, you already know that Todd and I joined a group from our church on a...
Wow! I turn my back for a second and April is over? Just like that? What I’ve Been Doing . . . If we’re friends on Facebook or In Real Life, you already know that Todd and I joined a group from our church on a...
Friendly Warning: This post contains sensitive material. It’s a complex emotion. Fear. We all have a relationship with it. Lately I’ve been pondering it. Wrestling with it. Analyzing it. Trying various methods of combatting it. And sometimes giving in to it. Fear can be good. Adrenaline helps you...
If you’ve been reading my blog, you know we had a rough start to 2016. I’m still struggling and grieving, but also making progress and embracing joy. It’s been a long time since I’ve linked up with Leigh Kramer for “What I’m Into.” February was a...
I have a memory of my friend Laurie . . . We are sitting on a set of bleachers together, warm sunshine pouring down on us. She tells me the story of her husband proposing. He’s out there in front of us, playing softball on...
The beginning of a new year is always a little anticlimactic for me. I don’t think I’m the only one who feels this way. The season I perceive as our busiest comes to a close. I spend the week between Christmas and New Year’s relaxing,...
I’m not a political writer. I hate politics. I hate debates. I can’t think on my feet and I mostly just want to ignore the kind of political fights I see on Facebook.But more than that, I hate so much of what I see in...
She arrived home from school and the badgering began. “When are you going to send that form in? There are only two other people in my class who haven’t sent it in yet. You have to do it by...
I mentioned, briefly, that we got a puppy August 1st. Prince Caspian. The Labradoodle. I haven’t mentioned him again, have I? If you judged my life by my blog (which is dangerously misleading in many areas), you’d have to assume that when Caspian joined our...
I’ve noticed a refrain throughout the course of my adult life. So much to do. So little time.It echos and reverberates as life goes on, becoming more hurried and frantic at times. So much to do. So little time.I thought this school year would give...
School has been in session for weeks now and my mind has been all over the place regarding our schooling decisions this year. Camilla started third grade at a small Christian school at the end of August. Adrian is staying home for Kindergarten. Evangeline is...