Dating Decisions – Part 3
Dating Decisions Part 3: Discovering Real Life and True Love [...]
Dating Decisions – Part 2
Learning the focus is on me: Dating Decisions Part 2 [...]
Sharks and Legos
Not this weekend, but still a good story! (I’ve saved up some stories from my month of not writing on here.) Becky and Dad thought it was okay to watch Jaws with Lucas. (WWHHAATT??!!) Exactly. Thank you. This screams through every mom’s head when you have a boy who likes [...]
Culture: The Importance of Family
May 10, 2020 Culture: The Importance of Family Imagine you are raised a young woman, married a few years with two children. Your family is part of a group sojourning in a land with people hostile to you. In your family’s culture, women are to obey their fathers and later [...]
Bike For My Longer Legs!
April 28, 2020 Bike For My Longer Legs! Lucas has a unidirectional purposeful mind when it comes to what he wants. As a three year old he told us for over six months that all he wanted for Christmas was a bike. That was it. Nothing else. He didn’t break [...]
Movie Review: Onward
April 12, 2020 Movie Review: Onward As a family, we got to watch a new movie called “Onward” (Disney/Pixar) recently. Curled up on our couch, eating tangerines instead of popcorn, we also got to discuss this movie during the end credits. I was pleasantly surprised at this movie. (Spoiler Alert! [...]
Big Brother
October 10, 2019 Big Brother Blessings Sometimes God blesses you with an awesome gift and you totally know it! From the time I was pregnant with Thea, Lucas was totally in love with his little baby. It was “my baby.” Lots of people tried to get him to choose “new [...]
The Big Boy Bed
May 2, 2019 The Big Boy Bed The girls shifted their beds around so that the Playroom is now the sleeping quarters for Kimberly, Jaquline, and Jillian and the Barracks is sleeping quarters for Christina, Becky, and Primrose. This shift was so that the barbies, legos, and small toys like [...]
“Lucas Got My Phone!”
"Mom, Lucas got my phone!" and took selfies all over it... just like they used to do to mine! [...]
Determination Versus Stubbornness
Can our perception affect whether we interpret the same character trait as either positive or negative? [...]