This weekend was about 3,000 hours long. I’m no smarty-pants, but I’m pretty sure weekends supposed to go by faster than that.  Josh left early Friday morning for a “quick” mission trip to Iowa. He and few ...

The weather was perfect Monday. We were outside. I was enjoying a delicious four-course meal that Hattie and Christian had prepared from the finest ingredients available in our yard. Starters were a leaf and spinach salad served ...

If you’ve paid any kind of attention to the news in the last week, you’ve probably felt the same as me. Shocked. Sickened. Helpless. Fearful. Heavy. People are dying horrific deaths. Children are starving and worse. Warfare ...

Many of you who read this blog have known me for as long as I have existed. You’ve watched me grow and graduate and marry and birth some kiddos and settle, and I suspect, to the outside ...

Last week, a dear fellow-mommy friend of mine dropped off her youngest with me and headed off to a hair appointment alone. (So it was already a pretty big day, really.) I took our gaggle on walk. ...

A few days ago, in the car, in a completely random moment of perfection, Hattie calls to me from behind. “Mommy?” “Yes, hon?” “Mommy, I love Jesus.” ~ I don’t know what your moments are with your ...