What Is It?
Do you have a son? I do. Have you ever heard this yelped in a very over-excited voice that bounces off the walls of your house? “Mom! Can I kill it?” [...]
Did Noah Have Daughters?
Random thoughts in my crazy writer's brain. [...]
One Picture of Excitement!
Sometimes one wonderful thing - one saying, one picture, one smile - can lift your entire day! For me, this day, it was already a happy day (birthday for one of my kiddos) but one picture made everyone super excited! [...]
The Baby Bug-Free Zone
The Baby Bug-Free Zone July 27, 2024 We have a long-term project that is going and going and going… One thing we don’t have to ponder is where the baby (or sleeping 5-year-old) will go to play if the bugs are bad. Whoa! IF THE BUGS ARE BAD?? What side [...]
Life Goals
December 28, 2022 Life Goals I continually reevaluate my “life goals,” if you want to call them that. Core has always been to love Jesus, pass that on to everyone I can touch, and show love when I can. The additions have changed a little: Pre-twenties, I wanted to be [...]
Hold Longer
August 17, 2021 Hold Longer A song came on the radio today. It was the first time I heard it. Casting Crowns’ song called “Scars In Heaven” played while I was on the way to after school pickup. The first line says “…if I had known it was the last [...]
Questions:
September 23, 2019 Questions I love how children ask questions. Sometimes their questions make you go search something. Like “what is a rainbow?” or “why are leaves green?” Sometimes their questions mirror your own; but those you won’t speak. You know, questions that your doubting mind asks but your thinking [...]
Loss and Love
June 23, 2019 Loss and Love Standing excitedly on the screened porch steps, 6 children stand about squirming, giggling, jumping, and otherwise trying to pitifully contain their excitement. “What is it, Daddy!” chorus a half-dozen voices. Daddy pulls out a stork – plain, white, six-foot-tall wooden stork. “No, Daddy! It [...]
Movie Thoughts: Knowing
March 28, 2019 Movie Thoughts: Knowing The other night we had a movie night. This had to be something mostly family friendly because everyone was awake. Yes, even Thea was awake, but I’m sure she wasn’t paying attention to the movie just yet. See, maybe because I’m old, or a [...]
Newly Licensed
Teenager now has a learner's permit... Mom is going nuts! [...]