I really don’t understand why cooking has to be so hard. Take for example the crock pot. Why do you have to plug it in? Is it not enough to just turn it on? I can’t begin to tell you the number of times I’ve smugly thought to myself … “Won’t my family be so happy when they come home tonight and smell the deliciousness of dinner wafting through the air as they walk in the door?”. And then, as…
Today was my first speaking engagement of 2017. I was super excited about it and loved having the opportunity to share with a group of mothers of preschoolers. As I was waiting to turn into the parking lot I watched wistfully as the mothers crossed the street taking their young children into the school. Some were pushing strollers, some had their sweet ones perched on their hips and many were squeezing tightly on to chubby little hands. Some moms were…
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The shepherds are such a fun geoup of guys! One minute they are “sore afraid” and the next minute they were saying “Let’s go see this King!”. They didn’t even hesitate, they were all in. Listen in as we continue to look for Jesus this Christmas season. SHARE
Sometimes we blow it big time. I imagine the innkeeper in Luke 2 felt that way. The King of the world could have been born in his inn and yet he told them he didn’t have room. But God always has a plan … and works the plan in spite of us. Listen in … SHARE
When we moved into our current house we began packing for the move as we packed up our Christmas stuff from the previous year. My husband wanted to make sure we didn’t lose the baby Jesus that went in our nativity scene so he packed it up in some tissue paper and hid it so well that we couldn’t find it for two or three years. We searched EVERYWHERE. At some point I told Bill … “maybe that’s the point,…
My goodness! Where does the time go? One minute I was blogging and the next minute I was trying to remember what my password was because it had been so long since I had last posted. I don’t have any kind of explanation for where I’ve been except … life. As they say …. life happens. 7th grade football season came and went and Jacob has now moved on to basketball. We made a few college visits with Brittany and…
I may very well be the only person on the face of the earth who could injure their larynx eating a salad. Not even kidding. The doctor actually wrote down “injured larynx/vocal cords due to choking on lettuce” in my chart. I had to go to the doctor because I sounded like a robot. I could not make it better either. I tried being quiet for several days … barely spoke at all which is HARDER than it sounds (get…
One spring morning as I sat at a stop light taking our then seventh grade daughter, Caroline, to school, she said … “Mom, when I close my left eye I can’t see anything”. I thought maybe I had misunderstood her so I asked … “what did you just say?” She said it again … “when I close my left eye I can’t see anything”. “Anything?” “Nothing” she said … “totally black”. I calmly told her I would call the eye…
The first week of school is behind us and mercy if it wasn’t a long week. By Thursday I was flat out exhausted … and I wasn’t even the one going to school! On Thursday I got this text from Brittany: Four days into the new school year and I had already forgotten to add a sandwich?!? I didn’t even make it a week before the wheels fell off the lunch making train! A few years ago I got…