We Want A Goal God Can Support

I just had to share this with you on this Monday morning.  It is from “Audacious” by Beth Moore.  She says, “We want a goal God can support because what He supports, He brings to pass.  He’ll supply the supernatural strength, the open doors,...

Directionally Challenged

Give me a landmark.  Don’t try that north, south, east west with me.  I’m simply directionally challenged. I drive myself to Downstream one time a year to help with the Lafayette House event.  Every year, Chris and I go through the conversation about how to get...

I’m a Dance Mom, and Ready to Admit It

(Photo: Annie as a new ballerina, 2006) I spent the weekend at a dance competition.  Yes, I’m sort of a dance mom.  (Maybe not in the fake-eyelashes-hyper-competitive-brawling-with-other-dance-moms way, but we did recently acquire the costume travel duffel bag...

Broken Battery…

My friend was going through some old pictures the other day and came across a huge bunch of them featuring us and our kids doing all kinds of super amazing things.  Apparently we used to be fun and full of energy! We would load our combination of six small humans...

Weekly Wrap Up: Our Favorite Blogs

Louise: No matter how many blogs I read for recipes and decorating and political opinions, the only ones I ever want to share are the ones that encourage me or make me laugh out loud.  A favorite this month that made me laugh out loud is from Jamie, The Very Worst...

‘Walking the Walk’ in Friendship

If the first rule of real estate is location, location, location, then the first rule of relationships is communication, communication, communication. But then – there’s middle school. My 13-year-old daughter came home with a sad tale of a disagreement...

Just Do It

So….I finally did it. (Nike would be so proud of me.) I finally came up with a solution to something that had been bugging me for longer than I care to remember…and I got it done. It wasn’t life-shattering or destiny-altering by any means. In fact,...

Time Flies

Time flies.  It just does.  My mother-in-law, Donna, was in the hospital last year.  When she went home she needed someone with her at the house 24 hours a day. Rex, my father-in-law, needed to run some errands so I went and stayed with her.  They have lived in the...

Victory Lap!

Let me just start this post with a warning:  expect total hideous (and possibly humiliating) honesty here.  Notice I left out the word “profound.”  This is a pretty surface-y piece of writing….but words won’t be minced. Some days I feel like a...

Lessons from the Nursing Home

My children spent 2 hours at a local nursing home the weekend before Christmas, visiting with the residents and singing (along with the rest of their school group) a few off-key Christmas carols. Their intent is always to play games and put together puzzles and other...