While I sip my coffee and hear the pattern of heavy rain on my window this morning my heart is so heavy for two dear friends who are facing serious life changing diagnoses. Parkinson's and Alzheimers. I don't understand it. Both amazingly strong Christian women. Who love the Lord and have served him with all their heart. One in ministry. The other who has supported ministries ... Read More »
Difficult topics
Happy Birthday Son – Here’s some Porn!
If you are a parent and you are not proactively protecting your child from what they have access to on their phones, iPods, iPads and computers then chances are your kids have been or are being exposed to soft or hard core porn. It's not necessarily because kids are looking for it although kids are curious. Today instead of having to look through a dictionary for dirty words ... Read More »
Adoption – “a little bit sad and a lot a bit glad”
I love my husband for writing this post because he'd rather have his nose hairs plucked than sit down and write anything longer than a text message. But in this post he shares openly what we are experiencing in our household right now in terms of adoption issues. I started the post but knew my heart was too raw and vulnerable to write without his input. I am thankful he took ... Read More »
3 lessons learned & random miscellany
Lesson #1: Don't recycle bird nests for bird use If you have ever wondered if you could trick a fallen baby bird by putting it into a nest that's not it's own just know it doesn't work. The rescue attempt is a kind hearted move but the bird will fly out immediately and make a beak dive and injure it's other wing. We have six bird nests that we've recovered from our ferns on ... Read More »
Dear #12, your mama needed to spank you.
Our school had their homecoming court and games the other week. They did an Instagram theme with hashtag statements and pictures all over the gym. Balloons, class representatives all dressed up and family snapping pictures were all part of the scene. Tons of fun. But the fun quickly turned into stress, frustration and down right anger as we started playing another basket ball ... Read More »
A Merit Badge project that had all three of us crying
Our son is working on his Citizenship merit badge for Boy Scouts and so we had to attend a court case in our county. We met the Clerk of Court who was so nice to Mitchell and showed him around. He tried several court rooms before finding the one that he felt would be a good fit for us. He alerted the bailiff and court officials that we would be sitting in and there we sat on ... Read More »
Mitchell’s letter to the President
I'm not sure how the conversation got there but Mitchell started asking questions about marriage and populating the earth. How did Adam and Eve, the first family, populate the earth without marrying into family? And if we are all ultimately related to each other then why have marriage in the first place? Why not populate the earth without marriage? Just a few light ... Read More »