We sold our dream home almost two years ago now (When God Turns Your World Upside Down).  It was not something I ever saw coming, but in...

Did you know that God has special, unique graces for YOU each and every day?  Ones that are made to fit the challenges you face and the...

We have been homeschooling over 20 years now.  I wouldn’t change a thing.  It’s still something that brings me to my knees.  It still...

He wanted to play football in the worst way.  None of his older 5 siblings ever wanted to play a team sport, so this was a new direction...

Having kids and family is often on our hearts and minds as moms, but what might it look like from our husband’s viewpoint?  On these last...

Every day my husband goes down to a storage room filled with, well…stuff we are storing. That and weight equipment. He sits at a table...

I’ve been struggling with anxiety lately.  There’s no particular reason.  No crisis. No big problems in my life.  It’s just THERE. It’s...

I remember wondering when our kids were little, if they would ever be out of diapers.  Considering we actually changed diapers non-stop...

I was leafing through an old journal of mine and ran across a piece of paper from years ago.  It was a list of things to pray for...

Our family loves to watch movies together, especially at Christmas time.  We’ve had over two decades to acquire a list of Holiday movies...

Yesterday I was talking to one of our married daughters about how much my role in her life has changed. I was saying how often I second...

A little envelope fell out of one of my journals the other day.  The note had arrived a year ago, almost exactly.  It was from family...

The one thing you can always count on is change. Although I still have kids at home, I have been wearing my new role as mother-in-law...

It’s been awhile since I posted! I have had lots of family dynamics going on and, as much as I love to write, real life relationships...

I was cleaning out the texts in my phone today and ran across the one that said, “We lost him”. It’s the text I sent out last October 3,...

I am aware of many people suffering right now. i’m not sure if it’s because we are all so connected through the internet or that...

I don’t know what family devotions are like with your kids, but at our house over the years, the words “torture”, “frustrating, and “epic...

A friend of mine posted this little something she wrote about having children.  She’s not a blogger or author (although she certainly...

This is a poem I ran across right after we lost Isaac.  It reminded me of those who had gone through grief before us and were “calling...

When I became pregnant with our first child, we were SO excited.  I tried to do all the “right” things…eat well,  exercise and take good...