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Ordinary Adventures New Year's Eve Post

2024 took some unexpected turns. I am refraining from rereading last year's post because I might be tempted to connect what happened to what I anticipated. However, this year's change wasn't even an inkling of an idea back in January, so I will start fresh with this post. Hopefully,  the end of 2024 marks the beginning of a shift in my life towards a lifestyle of both adventure and rest.  Let me explain. My husband...
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10 New Year's Resolutions for Mediocre -at- Best Mothers of Teens

    Exercise daily– Health is important. You need to develop your stamina to make it through these days. Each day do a sit-up. Yes, […]

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When God Sends You Home

Almost a year ago I sat around my best friend’s kitchen table with my closest friends and the book Restless by Jennie Allen. We were discussing what […]

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This Guy!

I am so lucky. I married the right man for me. I never watch a chick flick with envy for the leading man, because my […]

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Living Passionately With Boundaries

In Father of The Bride (1991), George Banks (played by Steve Martin) is talking with his daughter’s ex-fiancé following a dramatic break-up scene. George is trying to […]

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Parenting the Approximation

As I read the email sent home from school, I immediately had that, “What now?” reaction. When you have a child who was born living […]

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Taking My Breath Away

The call came: an accident. Frantic calls and a harried journey home. The shock of this new reality hit me so hard I couldn’t breath. […]

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What Does a Calling Look Like?

It’s been years. I can’t say for sure, but I suspect the first time I felt this sense that God had something different for me, […]

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On Death and Dying- Hospice and Heaven

My mother is dying, words I still find hard to believe. I’ve known this for over a year now, but the reality of these words […]

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New Year’s Eve Tradition

I have been writing a New Year’s Eve reflection for several year’s now. Typically I write it in the evening, but our friends are making […]

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To My Son on His 30th Birthday

December 16, 2014 To My Son on His 30th Birthday, I do not remember what happened on the day you were born. I never held your […]

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Would You Like to Dance?

Lord, I’m done with the wrestling. I’m done with the striving. I’m done with the always looking towards more. I just want to be with […]

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Not Enough

My greatest fear is that I am not enough. Not good enough, not capable enough, not faithful enough, not enough for what I was made […]

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Come Farther Up, Come Farther In

Another year has come and gone. I have made a habit of posting New Year’s Eve blogs that reflect on the previous year and look […]

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On Being Vulnerable

A few weeks ago I broke down into tears several times, including in the midst of a parent teacher conference with my daughters teacher, head […]

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On Turning 40

I have pondered what a post on the arrival of my 40th birthday would like like, and after much thought I felt a day in […]