Jan 30, 2014 | A Day In The Life, Family
We all had our favorite teachers growing up. The first adults in our lives who weren’t relatives that impacted how we saw the world, how we viewed learning, how we saw ourselves. Those priceless people sparked something in us that caused us to be a little more...
Jan 12, 2014 | A Day In The Life, Family, Verses
That’s what I want to be when I grow up. That’s the only thought that went through my head yesterday when I was in the company of my precious mother-in-law. Obviously, my desire isn’t to wrestle someday with the nightmare that is Alzheimer’s....
Dec 28, 2013 | A Day In The Life, Family
For the past 15 1/2 years, I have been the mother of at least one teenager. But all of that changes today. Today my baby turns 20! RIP teenage years. You took four children and turned them into adults. You began with pimples and braces and left them with clear faces...
Dec 27, 2013 | A Day In The Life, Family
The Flu. Not a fan. Boo.
Dec 25, 2013 | A Day In The Life, Family
“Can I come home with you guys?” That’s what two people said to us on the way out of church last night. Abby and Blake were there (home for Christmas!) and I was introducing them to as many of the arms-wide-open people of Blue Oaks Church as I...
Dec 19, 2013 | A Day In The Life, Family
Three score and thirteen years ago, an angel landed on this planet and made her home among us. The third child (and first girl) of six, she fell somewhere in the middle of five other siblings. She played the role of little sister to two and big sister to three. And...
