When we came to the decision to pull Camilla out of her wonderful little Christian school halfway through Kindergarten last year, I was pleasantly surprised to find that most of the people in my circle were very supportive of our decision. Even the teachers at...
I've looked forward to today all week. I love snow! It's beautiful. It makes for great skiing. The kids get to play in it (and so do I--sometimes). AND I have a good excuse to stay home. There's nothing like a good snow day for...
This week Tsh Oxenreider of The Art of Simple (formerly Simple Mom) released her latest book, Notes from a Blue Bike. The more I hear about this book, the more excited I am to read it, especially as I have embarked in the past few...
A couple weeks ago, a rather misguided woman wrote a blogpost that went viral. (Please don't click on that link. It's already had enough hits!) I only (finally) heard about this post last week and I’m already sick of...
I know these posts are coming sporadically now more than ever before, but that’s just the way it is. I have visions of revamping the blog, posting more regularly and making it work better some day. Next year, maybe....
I haven't done Five Minute Friday in a loooong time! A year, I think. I already had a word in mind to write about. And then I looked at Lisa-Jo's prompt and it was "tree" and that made me think of this post. So I...
We had the baby! Four days after my due date Evangeline Grace finally arrived! I felt like I would be pregnant forever. I started writing a blog post several times in that last week. I wanted to write what I like about being pregnant. I...
I’m attending the Montrose Christian Writers’ Conferencethis week, enjoying a refreshing breeze after a week of sweltering humidity. I’ve carried babies for three summers of my life, and this is the hottest I remember. Four years ago, when I...
I have been scarce here on my own blog. I know. And today I'm popping in not to talk about my life, but to shine the spotlight on my friend Olivia Stocum. I met her last year at the Montrose Christian Writers' Conference (which, by...
Part of my story started over thirteen years ago, with a conversation my friends would have referred to as “DTR”—“Define the Relationship”. You know how it goes: girl likes boy, girl thinks boy likes her, but girl isn’t positive...
