Category: Personal

  • June Status Report

    Sitting…at the school table. I recently finished some sewing/mending and am rewarding myself with a little blogging time. Drinking…Dr. Pepper Reading…1,000 Gifts by Ann Voskamp. I decided to take it with me to the pool yesterday since I finished Mr. Monk on the Road Tuesday. This part I read today resonated with my heart: Yesterday…

  • An Artsy Day

    Hannah is passionate and creative. She searches for various of fabrics and makes clothes for her dolls. She dirties her hands in clay and sculpts birds. She sits at our piano and composes songs. She opens rusty cans of paint and splashes their contents on her canvas. Her creativity inspires. I felt like letting her…

  • Thankful Thursday

    After missing several Thursdays to publish my thanks, I am happy to sit and give them this afternoon. I’d have to be crazy not to give thanks for being alive today. I’m thankful to be breathing, clothed, fed, and with a roof over my head. I do not deserve even that much. Everything else is…

  • Thankful Thursday

    1) I am giving thanks today (all week, really) for technology. I have been enjoying the streaming media coming from The Gospel Coalition conference in Chicago. I am thankful that I have been able to catch some of the sessions live. I am thankful that all sessions are still available for download. TIM KELLER JUST…

  • Favorite Weekend Moments (before I forget)

    Favorite Weekend Moments (before I forget)

    I wish I had remembered my camera for our latest camping adventure. Instead, I have mental snapshots for each time I said, “Oh, I want to remember that flower, that rock, that stream, that person doing that thing.” Unfortunately, those images are already fading from memory. I jotted a few things down in my journal…