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Thankful Thursday
I am thankful for technology. It gets used a-plenty for evil, but good, God-honoring usage abounds. My six-year blogging anniversary is coming up. And one of the things I always wonder about when I read a blog is, what is she really like? I know it’s easy to build an expectation about what a person…
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Weather Is Good
I didn’t get much sleep last night. All day long…well, really all weekend, I had been hearing that severe weather was on the way to Alabama. Several people, including myself, were anticipating it with dread because we haven’t had many major thunderstorms since the awful storm on April 27, 2011. I kept up with my…
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Playing in the rain
A few weeks ago we had a rainy day unaccompanied by thunder or lightening. On those rainy days, I encourage my kids to do the same thing my mother encouraged me and my little brother to do: get out there and run around in it! Our backyard turns into a small lake when it rains…
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Our fall camping trip
After a month of planning and changing plans and planning again, we finally took our family’s fall camping trip. Our friends the Hollingsworths went with us again. When Ben wasn’t playing, he was reading our Calvin & Hobbes collection. Indeed it is a magical world. At the last minute, we changed our camping location plans.…
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Autumn has arrived
Today was our first really chilly day. The hoodies and pull-overs are back in the closets. I love the crisp air mingled with the scent of a fire in a neighbor’s fireplace. It was only in the 60’s today; she must have been eager for a fire. The changing leaves are beautiful.
Leslie Wiggins 