By Hannah|2014-06-18T08:09:09+00:00June 18th, 2014|Uncategorized|12 Comments
Just after graduating high school, when I was way too cool to participate in anything meaningful and designed to point me toward maturity, my church hosted a fun evening of separate Father/Son and Mother/Daughter events. The men were going camping, complete with a whole-pig roasting and “Dressling” matches, a clever little sport where participants put on thrift-store dresses over their clothes and wrestle, as seen here during a rather intense [...]
By Hannah|2014-06-11T10:46:40+00:00June 11th, 2014|Uncategorized|13 Comments
I nearly died this week. Or maybe I should say I wanted to die this week. But there wouldn’t be a runaway minivan or a creepy bad guy to blame in on this time. It was my own cursed sinuses that were the culprit. I felt a little bit like ripping my own face off, just to release some of the pressure. But, alas, a face comes in handy when [...]
By Hannah|2014-06-04T13:34:04+00:00June 4th, 2014|Uncategorized|8 Comments
In case you were wondering where I’ve been, I flew to lovely Asheville, North Carolina a couple of weeks ago. Asheville really is beautiful, but the trees in the background of this blurryish shot of my friend, Niki, and I are the only scenery I got a picture of, unfortunately. Just imagine a lot more trees on rolling mountains, and that's Asheville. I was nearly giddy. Packed up, [...]
By Hannah|2014-05-14T08:29:25+00:00May 14th, 2014|Uncategorized|5 Comments
Somehow, in the confusion of my first semester of college, I found myself in an Honors Biology class, taught by a man who looked strikingly similar to Chewbacca. This was a grave error on my part, since the wookiee thing was both extremely distracting and far more interesting than photosynthesis. And, unfortunately, I realized much, much too late that all my classmates had taken Honors Biology in high school, [...]
By Hannah|2014-05-07T09:08:58+00:00May 7th, 2014|Uncategorized|3 Comments
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 eye, it has all seemed quite normal. Unexceptional. Rather boring, even. But something happened one day seven years ago that gave my average, unexceptional, American Christian life a swift kick in the pants. [...]
By Hannah|2014-04-29T21:32:30+00:00April 29th, 2014|Uncategorized|10 Comments
I grew up on a state park, which was a bit like having an enormous playground in your backyard. Which, technically, we did. My brother, Jake, and I outside the park museum. We dressed up for the occasion. That was back when teeter-totters were fun. Excuse me. Let me rephrase. That was back when teeter-totters were terrifying. I have vivid memories of clinging to my end of the seesaw while [...]
By Hannah|2014-04-23T13:03:23+00:00April 23rd, 2014|Uncategorized|4 Comments
So it was a completely lovely weekend. We pretty much only came indoors to bathe, sleep, and grab the camera when Hattie so perfectly captured Josh’s likeness in chalk. It’s surprisingly accurate. My favorite part is the tongue...or is that a cigarette?? We squeezed in a little trip to the river too. Josh let the girls reel in some whoppers, and Christian and I savored getting a little [...]
By Hannah|2014-04-16T09:30:26+00:00April 16th, 2014|Uncategorized|4 Comments
A few months after Edy turned four, she walked into the kitchen and threw this one at me: “Mommy, I’m pregnant.” I admit. It caught me a little off guard. “What does ‘pregnant’ mean, darling?” I asked. “It means I’m a princess.” I carefully (and very briefly) explained the actual definition of pregnancy, and she quickly realized her error. “Oh,” she said, “I mean, I’m married.” Edy, Age 4 [...]
By Hannah|2014-04-09T14:10:22+00:00April 9th, 2014|Uncategorized|2 Comments
So you know how much I love Silver Dollar City, right? We had this couples-only staff retreat this last weekend that just so happened to take place a few miles down the road from the land of wonderfulness that is SDC. We needed to be at our retreat locale by dinner on Thursday night. It took two hours to get there. So we left about 9 hours early. The roller [...]
By Hannah|2014-04-01T13:45:30+00:00April 1st, 2014|Uncategorized|2 Comments
We lived in this fabulous old house growing up. It had character by the bucket load. I loved that place. Me (age 2, not 4) with my brothers in our front yard. The house came with one of those ancient, bright red gas stoves in the kitchen. (What was it with us and big red things?) To cook on it, you had to turn on the burner with [...]
