Category: Personal

  • The Book Meme

    Kim tagged me for the book meme, but if you haven’t read her book meme post, you need to. It’s great! I promise you’ll get a big kick out of it. Go there, then come back here… Here is a list of the books on top of my desk right now: The Practice of Godliness…

  • More and More

    Benjamin said something the other evening while I was preparing the food and table for dinner that has caused me to really think. Let me set it up: Karl was asking everyone to wait for me to sit down before starting to eat. He began to explain to them the manners and etiquette behind his…

  • Highway Safety

    You know, teaching your children the “rules of the road” can never start too early. Our holiday travels provided several “field trip” lessons. The first lesson of the weekend occurred moments after leaving our driveway when we came upon a busy intersection. We were not moving despite the green light. This lack of forward motion…

  • Extraordinary in the Ordinary

    If I had known that today would be a special day, then I might have baked a cake or bought party hats. If I had known that God was planning to interrupt all of our mundane activities with a wonderful, re-birthday surprise, then I would have lived the whole day a bit differently. I guess…

  • Tagged again!

    Kim at Lifesong tagged me last week. There were two memes in her post, and I’m not sure which one I am supposed to do. For Karl’s birthday, I listed 33 reasons I love him. I think that covers the “13 things i love about my husband” meme. The other meme is “9 weird things…