When I was 8, I asked him things like, “How do they make paper from wood?” And he knew because he had worked in a paper mill. When I was 16, it was, “How do you know how to fix everything on a car?” And the answer was that he had owned a lot of […]
Because of all she is and all she does, for me and so many others…she is bless-ed. And then we are the ones who are blessed. “Her children arise up, and call her blessed…” Proverbs 31:28 Thanks, Mom, for a lifetime of influence! Forencouraging me to do things I wasn’t sure I could. For being […]
Motherhood is a constant learning experience. Every week there’s something new you thought you had already figured out, but no. Reality shows up, smacks you in the face, robs you of whatever confidence you have in yourself, and promises to come back next week and do it all over again. At least that’s how it […]
As much as I wish I could pretend I’m living the perfectly glamorous “I’ve got it all together” kind of fairy tale life, you all know better than that. I try to keep things real here on the blog, and sometimes that means talking about the hard stuff, like I posted about Monday. And then […]
It was like my eyes knew what to do before my mind could comprehend the words, and the tears began to drop, one right after the other, onto my white ruffled blouse with the rhinestone buttons. I remember like yesterday looking down onto my round belly which held my (now 11-year-old) Lily as I heard […]
