New Adventure is Off
#AroundTheTable #MyHeartIsGrateful Off on a new adventure!! [...]
A is For Achievement
Jaquline's Third Tryout: Saturday (email would be sent within a week) 2 hours later: "Mom do you have an email?" “Child, is it Friday?? I will not bug your coach. Patience.” “Patience is a muscle that needs to be used to grow.” “Patience is a virtue.” “Fruit of the Spirit, Jaquline?” *Lots of eye-rolls and [...]
Allow Dreams To Shatter
Let Dreams Shatter #2024 #Family #AMultitudeOfEmotion #AWeeksOfHighsAndLows #JesusIsAlwaysThere #TheSameYesterdayTodayAndForever #LeanOnJesus #ParentingAdults #Thankfulness #Mentors #Love #Truth #Homeschooling #Challenges #HappinessSadness #AHurtMomHasNotFelt #Responsibility #GrowingUp #ThePrivilegeAndResponsibilityOfWisdom [...]
Watching Them Grow
Throwback from: April 20, 2024 Watching Them Grow I’m feeling nostalgic. I’m watching girls dance and play while a sideshow plays and I hear music my Daddy used to play. Not just my girls but they all feel like mine. I’ve watched them grow in our gym. Some I’ve coached, [...]
This Day – April 28, 2024
April 28, 2024 This Day It’s been a whirlwind a week. Mountains, valleys, bridges, resets, tears, joy, excitement… all together and jumbled up and sometimes at the same time in my heart. This day was one of reflection. Thankfulness, answered prayers, closing doors, broken dreams, memories, amazing celebrated accomplishments… My [...]
New Year, 2024
January 3, 2024 New Year, 2024 Wow! Read that again! Wow! It’s a new year full of possibilities! I’m always so thankful for new years. New seasons, new months, a new week every Sunday morning, a new day every sunrise… newness always reminds me of the opportunity God gives us [...]
And We All Made It!
December 31, 2023 And We All Made It! Butterflies swam in my heart, stomach, mind… anywhere… everywhere all at once. I’m sitting in one of the folding seats in the Ocean Center with a baby nursing… I’ve been here, done that before, but never have I been in this venue [...]
Growing Young Women
December 28, 2023 Growing Young Women It struck me with a text I sent: I have the littles at gym with me I had Jillian, Lucas, Thea, and Laud. Half of our “biggers” are actually adults. That’s a strange place to realize I am at. I paused a moment, glancing [...]
The Miracle of Laud
The Miracle of Laud: A beautiful birth story [...]
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 [...]