In twenty years I’m not going to want to remember only the smiles but also moments like these…    I want to remember more than the moments he first sits up, crawls, and walks.   I want to harbor also the falls it took for him to get there.   That moment when I first […]

Baby’s First Christmas. It spurred in my mind special moments and memories to be made. A perfect picture of our son in his Christmas sweater smiling big next to our perfect Christmas tree. Making tins of beautiful Christmas treats for neighbors, family, and friends. Ezekiel unwrapping his very first Bible. And so, as our first […]

“And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.” John 1:5 They were awaiting a king in splendor, and so went unnoticed a baby in innocence. Today, Jesus is still not who they expect. “He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did […]

Thanksgiving is: My favorite day of the year. This year I am overwhelmed. Not that in prior years I did not have reason to be overwhelmed; most certainly I did. Maybe it’s just that this year I’ve taken time to be overwhelmed. Yesterday morning as Zeke was fast asleep in the next room, I sat […]

This is not one cookie. This is about 5 or 6 pounds of dough….   Only a short 50 days until graduation, and our senior class of 23 students is raising money for our class project, helping provide some New Tribes missionaries with literacy materials to teach the Gospel to those who do not yet […]

Fresh, homemade apple crisp made from apples we hand-picked at the orchard, along with a soy latte? Yes please 🙂   This transition into motherhood is resulting in a vast change in perspective. Not just my perspective on how much time an adequate shower requires, or my perspective on a “good night’s sleep”, but my […]