Have you been there? The words aren’t coming to your mouth.  They aren’t even formulating in  your mind in cohesive sentences.  Just a swirl of ideas and thoughts and phrases …and run-ons. Your brain won’t form words because the depth of your soul is just so anguished.  The possibilities…
Last week, Taylor, my daughter who has MPSIIIB, caught a cold.  Not a problem. At least it seemed that way.  Then over the next couple days, she was not herself.  Made it through the last day of school and then a  little extra sleep.  Saturday, she seemed to be a…
A Groucho Marx classic, two of my kiddos recently chose a prize of disguise from the dentist’s treasure box. My kindergartener fell in love with the prize. So much so, that he decided to sleep with it. Â Not unusual for him, but Daddy caught him, sleeping incognito. The next morning,…
Imagine what it would be like to have the  loss of one of your senses. Imagine a silent world. No laughter or music. Missing the glorious sound of the Hallelujah Chorus. Imagine a dark world. No rainbows. No lush, green meadows. Not knowing your favorite color. Imagine the inability to…
I can’t believe it. This week we celebrated Tarah’s birthday and already, she’s two. Her birth story is such a blessing to tell and here’s why: In 2007, Matt and I discovered that I was pregnant and we were thrilled to anticipate the sixth addition to our merged, growing family….
The first week Tessa was home, one morning as I was making oatmeal, I caught myself with one eye closed and barely avoided using chili powder in place of the cinnamon. I can only imagine the look Taylor would have given me for that one. Easter weekend, I was supposed…
Ok, so I’m a huge fan of sweet n salty snacks. Â Can devour a bag of chocolate Chex mix like no other. (Can we say “Made to Crave?” ) Â But Mother’s Day! Does it have to be sweet and salty? Sweet because I spent a wonderful morning with two precious…
This past Sunday, a very generous compliment was afforded to me.  “You were made to have babies.” Wow, I guess you could interpret that many different ways.  And I chose it to say “You make having babies look easy.” 🙂  But how?  If you ask my husband and he doesn’t…
Since Tessa Grace has arrived, the one question I’ve heard frequently is: Who does she look like? For our sweet T, I originally thought she looks like our almost two yr. old, Tarah. Â And Tarah is sooo much like her big sister, Taylor. But then over the days, I began…
Tessa had her first Sunday at church yesterday! Â I love the privilege of feeling well enough to have babies in the nursery the first Sunday after they are born. Â That experience is a legacy passed down from my Mom, who did the same for me. In the last nine…
On Wednesday afternoon, Samuel, the ever-thinking kindergartener, was staring out the patio door windows at the gorgeous snow falling. “Mommy, who makes the snow?” It was a rhetorical question. Â So I responded: “I don’t know, Buddy. Who makes the snow?” “God,” he says. Â Long pause. “Do you think that…
Every once in awhile, a sermon illustration you hear really sticks with you. Â Yesterday’s sermon by Pastor Harrell outlined Barnabas and his continual lifestyle of encouragement. Â When Pastor arrived at the point of this particular illustration, after the first line, I whispered the outcome of the story in my…
