I love creating the setting for family and friend gatherings – the table, the food – to create a memory worth keeping. I’ve learned a few things about my boys. The outdoor gatherings, where we eat outdoors, with some cornhole, maybe croquet, a soccer ball – when it’s outside they’re more likely to stay longer, laugh more, let the relationships … Continue reading →
“If life looks like you expected it to look, then you’re doing something wrong” – that’s the thought that came to mind while I was blanching tomatoes the other day. Today I’m 59 and Friday, I will celebrate 38 years with my Forever Man. I’m throwing My Plan Book out the window. My expectations? Just a drop in the bucket … Continue reading →
It’s my birthday month – so I am going to do something totally decadent. I’m going to repost some of my favorites. Lead Me to The Water was initially the first of two separate posts 1) Lead Me to the Water, the poem followed by 2) The Story Behind the Poem: The Elephant in the Room. They are combined here. … Continue reading →
Over 25 years ago, a friend invited me to church – over and over and over again. I’d told her, I’d bent to Baptist – and just didn’t think I could bend to this new church. It would probably break me. In retrospect, I was probably scared of something so very different. I was still hungry for more of God. … Continue reading →
“And I will give them one heart and one purpose: to worship me forever, for their own good and for the good of all their descendants” (Jeremiah 32:39 NLT). There’s beauty and grace when you meet someone following hard their dream who invites you along and encourages the development of your dream. Alisa Hope Wagner is one of those people. … Continue reading →
“Open up my eyes in wonderAnd show me who You are.” ~ Housefire, “Build My Life” I should have posted a note last week here that said, “Gone Hiking.” My husband decided to take some time off work – and he wanted to hike – so instead of working with the blog and its community, I went hiking. My Forever … Continue reading →
On a schools-out, Summer-time morning, I drove past a badling of ducks moving from their morning paddling to their mid-morning activity of foraging and preening. They seem to live in perpetual holiday-living mode. Of course, I wasn’t thinking about the coyotes I hear howling at night in the morning sunlight. Or the foxes that sneak into the backyard chicken coops … Continue reading →
Last week I found myself sitting in my own little ash pile. Blue-deviled is an apt way to describe it. Let me tell you, it’s not only ten-year-olds who get the blues. But there I was! In the middle of a month of celebrating answered prayers, and people I love, I was in a battle of the blues. I can’t … Continue reading →
The easiest and quickest way to clear a room of my sons in my house, regardless of age, is to talk about the day they were born. Really, though, they don’t want to hear any of my stories. This month, we have a 14-16-18-18-27 Party, celebrating two sons’ birthdays and three grandsons’ birthdays. I could tell you all the stories … Continue reading →
I love celebrating birthdays – one-year-old birthdays to 90+ birthdays. I love filling the table with favorite dishes and desserts, considering the table detail for the little ones and the big ones, the celebrant and the celebrators. Children’s gifts? I love the whimsy of finding the right gift for the right child. Can I tell you how exciting it is … Continue reading →
