Tonight I'm linking up with a new-to-me favorite author, Emily P. Freeman. Every month Emily encourages her readers to "look back in order to move forward". She shares what she learned in the previous month and her readers do the same thing if they choose to. This month I'm choosing to. As I awkwardly look back on a month (I'm more the lets conquer this day and look forward to ... Read More »
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Belly Laughter
Usually family formed belly laughter is just that - for the family - and just like pulling out old home videos is boring to other people so are their family belly laughter stories. But one reason this blog exists is for family memory preservation so I'll share it anyways. The weekly belly laugher comes in the form of a mispronounced Science term. I'm explaining to my son how ... Read More »
Church fail – OMGosh I’m a freak!
All of last week I pretty much ate a daily dose of humble pie. It wasn't the most epic parenting week ever and I certainly didn't hold up to any pastor's wife specs and qualifications last night at the Community Thanksgiving service. Let me paint the picture: Once a year our awesome little community holds a Thanksgiving service on Sunday night. It either takes place in a ... Read More »
Homecoming Court: a platform to teach about true identity
It happens every year - homecoming court. I love it and I hate it. I hate that young girls especially tend to place so much value on a like, a share, a comment or in the case of homecoming - a vote. Each girl secretly hopes to be chosen as class representative even if she is too scared to walk the court or doesn't want to be in the spot light. She still wants to be the one ... Read More »
How we handle sales calls at dinner time – don’t hate us
Maybe you've been there before. You just finished cooking dinner and gathered the family at the table which is a feat in itself. You've prayed and now you're ready to put that hot bite of paleo cauliflower casserole (that's a joke for those who don't know me) into your mouth and the phone rings. Honestly, I'd be relieved if a phone call interrupted a bit of paleo anything but ... Read More »
Gift Ideas and a warning about barreling through leaf piles
I'm thankful for my man who keeps up our yard. We have a million leaves like everyone else right now. Where we live the city provides a sucker-upper truck that comes by and gets our leaves once a week. You don't have to bag them. Just rake them to the curb and they get them. Cool huh? Of course every now and then you get a smart-hmm-hmm who drives their car through the middle ... Read More »
When we lose some funny
This is my all time favorite picture of our daughter. She was 4 and this was her pretend wedding dress and she had just "fixed" her hair. She came into the bathroom to show me and I laughed because well, I thought it was hysterical. She did not think it was even a tiny bit funny. I know you find that hard to believe from the picture. I felt bad for sucking the excitement right ... Read More »
31 Days: Day 31 – At the end of the day
Outreach involves so many aspects and I've only haphazardly addressed some of them. But really at the end of the day we've got to realize that our obedience to God is what matters. Hopefully it is our love for Jesus that moves us to want to obey him. If our obedience to God comes from any other source: guilt, fear of man, attempt to look good, etc. then it's in vain and ... Read More »