A soul that walks on water leaves no footprints, but will make waves."
Yesterday the sun shown. It was warm and we got to enjoy it. Tisra and Amy and I along with 6 little kids took a drive to Spring Hill, did a little shopping, had a little lunch and then let the kids play at the park for a bit. It was beautiful and I’m…
The name cookies in the previous post are now gone from the tree. The weight was a factor, as I predicted, so I’m glad I got the photos. The humorous thing was the way they fell. Yesterday morning we woke up to OWEN, IVAN & RON. Later in the day…
The big name cookies are hanging but I don’t know if they’ll last the season so I got pictures while I could. I had to hang them all pretty close to the top on the stronger of the accessible branches. Next year we’ll definitely try to go a little small…
Well the gingerbread is baked and the kitchen is cleaned up and I’m wiped out. I love my son, I love that he had a great time helping and I love that we can look back and see a fun afternoon for him, but I don’t want to do that again for a long time. H…
I predict this story will be a movie soon.
My “To Do” list keeps growing. I keep moving things that don’t get done to the next day in hopes of catching up and it’s gotten to the point where I start my day with more on my list than I can accomplish. So I must divide and conquer and conquer I wil…
There are days, even weeks when I feel full. Not in the “ate too much turkey” sense but in the “life can’t get much better” sense. Just as I could easily think myself into misery I can also think myself into happiness but this is not that sort of happi…
This morning as I began reading my Bible at 5:20 I remembered that I was reading the exact same passages at exactly the same time exactly two years ago. It was the 29th of November and I was interrupted between chapter and verse by contractions that bro…
Kris and I (and Aron) just got back from St. Louis. We left after lunch on Sunday so it wasn’t a long trip, but with a nursing infant in tow, a long trip isn’t necessarily desirable. Kris’ parents arrived from Florida on Saturday afternoon and stayed a…
This article I read on Fox News this morning is one that makes me blink a lot and shake my head in frustration and disbelief. Especially the quote from the chairman of the sociology department…is he stupid?
This is exactly what’s causing problems…