Oh.My.Yes….. I’m having a “Grace Day“. It seems like we’ve been stringing them end to end here lately. Waiting. Watching. Hoping. Praying. We’ve loved our time here in this home, but the walls seem to be closing in and my children’s energy BEGS for a backyard, and my hands ache for dirt to plant a [...]
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Jan 302012
Does anyone else know what happened to November?? I have been scratching my head for weeks…..flipping the calendar pages back and forth…. It just doesn’t add up. It was November I blinked And now we are one month down in 2012!! Backtracking a bit and adding some of my favorite holiday memories to my list [...]
Nov 272011
Do you include Advent in your celebration of the Christmas season? THIS is why we do? Today I am giving away as many copies of my eBook Celebrating the Season: An Advent Study as God will let me! Follow me on Facebook or Twitter for chances to win all day long! Blessings! Are you [...]
Nov 222011
A repost from my series last year on UnGifts! Make sure you scroll to the bottom to enter my giveaway for a copy of my ebook Celebrating The Season: An Advent Study!! Already bought a copy last year?!? Share this giveaway with a friend! I hope I answered all of your questions yesterday about [...]
Nov 212011
I saw her post today that you were playing piano. All day long and into the night the melodies of you danced in my mind. All of the songs and all of the laughter and all of the tears…… all of what we once were, and how we got here, to this place where [...]
Nov 202011
Sadie~Ryan age 2 Calls herself “Ry Ry” and so we all follow along! Loves her “Buddy Boy” and her Big Sisters more than anything in this world. Knows EXACTLY what she wants and WHEN she wants it. Loves to push her babies in the stroller, HELP Mommy in the kitchen, feed Daddy’s FISH, read BOOKS, [...]
Nov 142011
Claira age 5 loves her ”Pink Blankie”, her Pink Teddy, and everything PINK, PINK, PINK. AMAZES me with her talent for drawing. Forever digging through my trash to make treasures. CANNOT walk by a flower without picking it. SO IN LOVE with her freckles and her dimpled cheeks and the SPARKLE in her eyes! Thoughtful [...]
Nov 092011
For our family Christmas is about celebrating the birth of Jesus. We try to incorporate that in everything we choose to do during the holidays. One of our favorite ways to get our holiday season started off right, by that I mean focused on others and not ourselves, is a Shoebox Packing Party! We have participated with Samaritan’s Purse [...]
Nov 072011
All across the floor are toys, books, socks, crayons, baby dolls scattered from one end of the house to the other. That’s not the only thing that’s scattered my thoughts, my emotions, juggling, so precariously, all of their individual needs and mine….where do those come in? Our days seem scattered, jumping from one thing to [...]
Nov 022011
There’s something about a “New Life” that makes you want to make a new start in lots of things. One of the things we wanted to change was our eating habits. My husband in particular had been really struggling with not feeling well, no energy, lots of headaches, etc. In his words, “I am 34, [...]
