Scoops

We know our kids love to read and enjoy the printed page.  It is so much a part of our daily lives we can fail to notice it so I appreciate the opportunities where I can see it afresh.  Our second Sunday in California found us enjoying supper at the home one of Papa...

Boon!

We live behind a strip mall.  A strip mall that includes a casino, liquor store and dollar store in addition to two hair places, a state department of health office and a super-fantastic drug store. It’s as classy as it sounds and I normally don’t like to...

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

Things are looking a little different around here . . . Philip had braces put on today.  I have a kid with braces. He was brave and is enthusiastic with his self care so far. And Jac’s beard is gone.  I was beginning to think that we were entering Duck Dynasty...

21 Weeks 4 Days

Dear Sixtus, First, let’s address your name: Don’t worry, we’re not planning on letting it stick. But it’s nice to have a title for you and it’s fitting. Second, we all got to see you for the first time today. I have been stressed out...

This Too Shall Pass

The first half of this year has been . . . hard. As in knots-in-stomach-sleepless-nights-utterly-speechless kind of hard. And yet God remains. Just when we think we can’t possibly hold more, plug another hole, hurt any worse, he has been there with more.  More...