Leaving No Footprints

We’ve had a busy week. We’ve enjoyed it a great deal and hope to continue our jovial mood into the weekend. Keith and Juda arrived on Sunday. Kris picked them up from the airport after lunch and just hung out here for the most part. Monday we did a l…

Lately a memory has been popping up that I thought I’d write down. It’s something sort of cool that happened to me several years ago, and is a lesson I continue to remind myself of when the “everyday” becomes a little too aggressive.

First of all let…

On Sunday morning Kelly Mutter, the wife of the children’s pastor, stopped me in the hall. She asked if I would please make a dessert for the assistant children’s pastor’s farewell reception tonight. Knowing I wouldn’t be there and that I don’t really…

Yesterday morning I went to our freezer in the garage to get some milk. When I opened the door I found that dreaded picture no one wants to see when they open a freezer. Things were melting. I quickly realized that the freezer was fine, but the door h…

My dad brought this to me in November of 2006. It was in his basement and he was considering burning it. I had to rescue it.

I painted it and did a lot of work but the top was unfinished for a long time. Last week I got some tile and other necess…

Where was I? After we had our fun in the backyard (below) the boys took naps as pictured and then we went to the “Church Park”. I think it is officially called “The Village Park” or something like that but everyone I knew called it church park because…

I had such a fun day with the camera last Monday. The weather in Michigan was beautiful and yet my boys (especially Owen) were determined to stay indoors. I forced them to follow me outside to watch grandpa plant corn. Owen cried and pouted for about…

This post is long overdue but I was referring more to my trip to Michigan. I had not been “home” in over a year and my boys and I needed to visit again. We saw a lot of faces and places and there are mounds of things that could be written. I’m just go…

Boys are bathed and sleeping, bags are still packed, pictures are downloaded but not edited, dinner is purchased and eaten, stories are told, pajamas are on and relaxation is in progress.

I don’t have any of my usual accessories in terms of software to use on my pictures while I am here so I used Microsoft Paint to resize and rotate this photo. The quality suffers and I can’t do much else with the photo so I’m only editing one. The rest…