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|2014-04-23T13:03:23+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 [...]
By Hannah|2014-03-11T21:50:01+00:00March 11th, 2014|Uncategorized|5 Comments
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. And she got a phone call. The caller identified herself as someone my friend and I had just been discussing. We had never met this woman, but she was a big, important, practically [...]
By Hannah|2014-02-25T13:38:54+00:00February 25th, 2014|Uncategorized|8 Comments
This is the one I didn’t want to write. It’s too hard. And it’s too awful. It’s too big for me. It comes after a week in the news that strikes every parent at the core of their deepest, darkest fears. It comes after everyone in world who could or would pray, prayed, and social media blasted its Amber Alerts and all the trained professionals with their years of experience [...]
By Hannah|2014-02-18T14:00:33+00:00February 18th, 2014|Uncategorized|8 Comments
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 children. Those moments when you feel your heart squeeze and then nearly explode with happiness. Mine don’t require much. (I suspect yours don’t either.) A nursing infant playing with my hair. One of [...]
By Hannah|2014-02-04T09:49:08+00:00February 4th, 2014|Uncategorized|6 Comments
A few years ago, we were on our way to Branson, Missouri to visit the fabulously fantastic Silver Dollar City when Edy got carsick. (Yes, Silver Dollar City really is that wonderful. Seriously, I want to retire there. Josh will grow a big beard and work in the carpenter’s shop, and I’ll wear an old-timey dress and get to make (and eat) cinnamon rolls in the bakery all day. It [...]
