Dating Decisions (Part 1)
Part 1 of Dating Decisions - dissecting real life and true love [...]
Failing to Compare
July 23, 2020 Failing to Compare Do you know what I hope I fail in? Seriously. I’m super competitive by nature. I had to teach myself that trying to “be my best” is a different thing than being better than someone else. I had to fail at comparing. What are [...]
Making the Team!
June 11, 2020 Making the Team! (I know, picture is Kimberly w/Baby Thea, but it’s one of my favorites and this loaner computer wouldn’t load the gymnastics one…) Kimberly has been working so hard for the past almost two years in the hopes of making the gymnastics team at our [...]
God’s Fireworks
June 7, 2020 God’s Fireworks When Christina, Brian, and Becky were little, way back when Becky was going by the nickname of “Lori” and we had a big brown dog they named “Dakota” after a Disney song from a movie that went on repeat for easily two months… we lived [...]
Growing Little Love
June 1, 2020 Growing Little Love Thea is getting independent by giant leaps. I don’t do the whole months thing unless I have to (I love math, but “over one” is just as good as “fourteen point two five months” as far as describing my baby’s age goes) so when [...]
Life is Risk
May 26, 2020 Life is Risk Life is risky. How many people get out alive? (I’ve heard that from two sources this week, and it got me thinking…) Our goal since the beginning of time has been to build this net of safety around our family to allow our offspring [...]
Culture: The Importance of Family
May 10, 2020 Culture: The Importance of Family Imagine you are raised a young woman, married a few years with two children. Your family is part of a group sojourning in a land with people hostile to you. In your family’s culture, women are to obey their fathers and later [...]
Becky’s Parakeets!
Becky’s Parakeets! May 2, 2020 Becky has been dreaming of and saving for parakeets for over four years. When her savings goal of the summer camp all three teens were to do together canceled due to COVID-19, she decided to invest in Disney shares while they were record low cost [...]
Popping Pool Days
April 30, 2020 Popping Pool Days So when Grandma Tina brought Lucas’ new bicycle, she also brought a little pool! The girls were like, “oh, look, a baby pool for Thea!” and “6 feet! Wow, I can lay down in it and not touch each wall!” It was not just [...]
What is Praiseworthy?
April 26, 2020 What is Praiseworthy? I heard a bit from a youtube radio (do you call them radio guys if they have a channel?) that matched quite nicely with the Bible reading I had today and the actual radio show I listened to on the way to work this [...]