It happened first last week.Camilla was talking to me, rambling on as she sometimes does, and I was nodding and half-listening."Mm-hmmm . . ." I commented."Mom, don't say Mm-hmm!" she said. "Say, 'yes!'"She'd caught me. But I wanted to be sure. "Why, Sweetie?""I don't like...
I know it's October 5th, but just a few weeks ago I was on the beach in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. It was 80 degrees and sunny. I love autumn. Really, I do. But today it's raining and dreary and I'm missing those...
I am thrilled to accept this award given to me by my wonderful writer-and-now-blogger friend Demery. She blogs every day, so if you go to her blog, you won't find her post about this award unless you go back aways. I'll make it easy for...
On a weekend in mid-August, I was blessed to be part of a reuniting of hearts in Colorado Springs. Twelve years ago, forty college students from all over the United States (with one from South Africa) became the 7th class of the little-known Focus on...
I love summer. Swimming. Playing at the park. Iced Lattes. Sunburn. Ice Cream Sandwiches. And of course, evening camp fires in the back yard, complete with S'mores. No, Adrian's not eating a S'more. So what if he was?...
I don't call this a book review, or anything official, but I did say in this post that I would try to follow up after I finished reading The Shack. Well, I finished it a long time ago--and what's worse is, I didn't buy it....
Okay, I've come to the decision that I need to grab brief pockets of time when I have them and write like mad for the duration. A week or so ago, I watched the movie Motherhood. I loved it. I can't even remember who recommended...
An old friend of mine went to the hospital last week with preeclampsia. She was only 26 weeks pregnant. On Saturday night the baby had to be delivered. He weighs only 1 lb. 1 oz. My heart just breaks at the thought of beginning motherhood...
I finally uploaded these pictures from a few weeks ago and I just had to share them. We picked strawberries with one of my wonderful sisters-in-law and her four awesome kiddos, so Camilla and Adrian got some great cousin time as well as a whole...
In my last post I made the observation that "I don't know how anybody handles more than two children" but said that was a post for another day. I've been mulling over it ever since and now it is another day, so I'll just dive...
