June 15, 2017 Cousin Train Some days you just need to laugh! When cousins are over, that laughter is always bouncing off the walls. The big girls raced by each pushing a tomato box across the wooden floor. Mandy squealed from Jaquline’s box (“faster!”). Isaac peered up from behind his [...]
June 14, 2017 Hair Day Yesterday was a misty day with the sun desperately attempting to peek through, but the clouds kept winning. Louis decided it was time for a haircut. We usually cut hair outside so I trimmed his hair while Kimberly watched. Kimberly wanted to know how it [...]
June 13, 2017 Eggs of Giants One cool thing about keeping a flock of chickens (aside from the 5am alarms) is that they pop eggs out! Before we had chickens, I thought all eggs were white and exactly the same size and shape. With the first time our Buff Orpington [...]
June 2, 2017 Sooty Makeup I’m not really a makeup person. (Okay, I almost never wear makeup.) Someone says “makeup” and I think sweaty post-workout drizzle where my face looked like a tie-dyed T-shirt (which was my teenage inexperience with makeup). Rebeccah, however, is very artistic and does makeup [...]
May 30, 2017 Building Katy Bear “Tell me a story about creation!” Pipes Christina. “Animals!” bubbles Rebeccah. So began a little story about a bear named Katy who wants to see God create something. This story was told for about three years before I wrote it down because Rebeccah wanted [...]
May 21, 2017 Please Write More About Ethan! (Brantley Station Saga) One of the issues with writing and being a perfectionist is this: I never view anything as complete! I have hundreds of half-finished manuscripts in various sizes littering my “stories” folder. Because I proof myself better in print [...]
May 20, 2017 The Adventures of Long Tail (Rise of the Rooster) Fun Fact: The “Adventures of Long Tail” stories started with a dream my little brother had! We had just moved to a house where the neighbor had dozens of peacocks and peahens (boys are cocks, girls are [...]