December 3, 2022 Turtles in the Kitchen It had been one of those days. You know, when you begin to question everything, your brain shouts accusing bits at you and highlights every choice you’ve made since infancy, and your biggest challenge is to find something joyful to think on or [...]
December 30, 2020 Choosing Gratitude Ever feel just overwhelmingly grateful? That often happens to me as I’m contemplating life. It usually starts when I feel discouraged. Everything bad coming at me all at once or someone mentioning some past mistake that helped lead to some poor circumstance I’m in now [...]
July 14, 2020 Doing Less, Loving More Kimberly calls it, “living in the moment,” but really, it’s choosing to live where God has placed you with hope for the final future. Your focus is not on temporal things but on the things of God. It’s been a long teaching road [...]
May 16, 2020 Shattered Again. Shattered Again. This is what strikes my heart again. Of course, in the big scheme of things I realize, this is tiny. This isn’t losing a family member or going bankrupt. Logically, my brain tells me that this isn’t really a bad thing and there [...]
Stepping Back February 23, 2020 My little love is one! I’m 37. We both had birthdays this week. This is the first birthday for one of my children that I missed. I was on my way to a meeting at work when I got two adorable videos from Louis – [...]
November 10, 2019 Memes to Voices A friend was showing us her flower arrangements: she said, “expectation versus reality.” To me, both arrangements looked amazing – her husband had given her a few bunches of flowers which she artistically set in two gorgeous table arrangements. She thought one was excellent [...]
August 30, 2019 Kimberly and her Birthday Twin Louis & I decided to join the church we have been attending. After attending a newcomers class, we brought home our study books and Kimberly looked over it. (Our purpose was to let Christina and Becky look over it. I wasn’t expecting [...]
June 13, 2018 Relax and Rest Sometimes I just feel overwhelmed with thoughts. I feel like my mind is going to blow a fuse (or already has blown through a few and I’m on the last one, staring at an empty box and praying this one holds). I’ve taught myself [...]