We Do What We Have to Do, Even Solo Vacations
Warning: This is a rant. I am indulging because it will make me feel better. Yes, I realize that this is selfish behavior. Feel free not to continue reading.
Warning: This is a rant. I am indulging because it will make me feel better. Yes, I realize that this is selfish behavior. Feel free not to continue reading.
Lisa-Jo over at The Gypsy Mama wrote the other day about how working moms need grace – grace to handle the daily good-byes, grace for handing over their children to others, grace for the guilt they carry. In my journal where I count gifts from God, I write “the ability to work from home, not…
“Children are a heritage from the LORD, offspring a reward from him.” (Psalm 127:3) A few weeks ago, my family headed out for a mini-vacation at a resort town a few hours from home. It had been almost a year since we’d had any kind of a getaway, thanks to COVID-19. Our hotel had a…
We were driving home from church in the pouring rain, talking about what we were going to do on such a miserable day. E, who was riding shotgun, pointed at the sign for the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum’s extension campus as we passed it. “Sometime, we ought to go there,” he said. “Well, why…
I love this trend in the blogging world of choosing a word to focus on throughout the year, and I’m hopping on the bandwagon for 2014. As I’ve mulled over what I want 2014 to look like, a few different words keep coming to mind. So I’ve chosen three words, not just one, to be…
L and I arrived home from Michigan a little over a week ago, and although it’s remained silent here on the blog, I promise you, you have not been far from the front of my mind. It’s just – there’s so much I want to tell you, I’ve felt sort of paralyzed. Where to begin?…
This past weekend, L and I made Valentine’s Day cookies. Yes, Valentine’s Day was technically over, but we made cookies anyway. Valentine’s Day was on a Friday, you know, and well – it’s just too hard for me to engineer those kinds of projects during the week. But I still wanted to bake with L….