A soul that walks on water leaves no footprints, but will make waves."
This past weekend we drove to Michigan for a wedding.
A wedding that just a scant 7 months ago, we thought might not happen.
My brother, who wandered for a few years, who dabbled, who threw out, who turned away, who scoffed and even argued at time…
For Owen it came early, just a scant nine months of breathing air and he was beginning to understand authority. The light, but decisive, tap to his diapered bottom after his little back had arched and his voice had rung with anger at our insistence tha…
This is the letter I would have put in our Christmas cards this year. I thought I’d save a couple trees, but not all of them. I still sent some cards (I bought a pack of 50…if you didn’t get one it’s because I have too many cousins), I just didn’t pr…
Last night as we sat around a table eating pizza as a family I looked at my oldest boy and felt the little nudge I’ve been feeling a lot lately. The nudge to make sure he is secure. He’s going through some minor changes. Not like the kind where pimpl…
Why did October seem to last only a week? It has been the shortest month on record.
As many of you know I pride myself somewhat in my ability to say “no” to the many requests for time and service asked of me. In fact…I’m not so proud to admit t…
The boys are off to school and I haven’t left the house. My neighbor has a kindergartner at the same school as our little men, so we have begun carpooling today. Both of our kindergartners are showing enough independence to walk into class on their ow…
I have not felt like I have time to do blogging justice lately so I haven’t blogged.
There are certainly some things worth writing about though so I will try to give them a little credit here and then move on.
School is now in full swing and I a…
Today is our second, first day of school for the year. Owen’s first day was yesterday and Ivan starts today. They do attend the same school, but as Ivan is starting kindergarten there is a phase in schedule that didn’t include him yesterday.
Owen…
My sister and brother-in-law and their four boys have been to Tennessee and gone again. It’s been a fun couple of weeks having them around. They stayed at my other sister’s home this year and kept them all busy. They are now up at my dad’s house, enj…
The moment each of my boys were born I whispered something to them. “Jesus love you.” Above anything else, above my own love for them, above their own esteem, I want them to know that Jesus loves them.
Some may consider it cliché, some might consid…