Then we did the things…the dreaming and the planning and the inviting and the shopping and the furniture rearranging. Which required drinking more of the coffee. Why…thank you, Rory. We found some cute party supplies on Etsy – coffee cups, team boyfriend stickers, and Gilmore Girls Bingo boards. Favor boxes, too. And we recruited biggest… Read More First We Drank The Coffee…
Last week went way too fast, and had to be highly scheduled as you can see. Our boys arrived home for the Thanksgiving break Monday night after Robert, Kayla, and I had gone to bed. Cooper picked Kory up in Boston on his way home from Gordon College which was so perfect. Since Kayla and… Read More A Week Of Thanksgiving
Last Thursday I drove halfway across the state (which only takes an hour here in Massachusetts) to meet my friend Betsy for coffee at Panera. Betsy moved to the Boston area this past summer and left me without one of my dearest friends in town and my every-Thursday-morning-running-partner. After coffee with Betsy, my friend Christina… Read More Thankful: Plants, Pillars, And No Outcries
It’s been so fun seeing all of the back to school photos on Facebook lately. We used to be able to take back-to-school photos, too. Here’s one from about 5 years ago. Chocolate waffles, bacon, and new school supplies greeted my homeschoolers that day. Always a fun morning and a fresh start. I’ve only got… Read More Big Kids Back To School
Just returned from this gorgeous scene on Friday night. I don’t know if any U.S. coastline compares to this particular stretch. Maine is just beautiful, and I have to pinch myself when I’m there. Truly the stuff of dreams, I can’t believe this is how we’ve spent about one week of every year for the… Read More Wild Summer. Good Father.
Last week I wrote about being heartbroken over good men losing jobs over situations seemingly out of their control. I remain heavy hearted about that to be sure, but yesterday brought on a different sort of heartbreak. I didn’t cry or lose sleep over godly men having to make tough sacrifices last week, but I… Read More Speaking of Heartbreak…and Our Only Hope
Happy Friday! Posting on a Friday afternoon is a sure indicator of a blogging rookie. No one reads on Fridays, much less over the weekend. But I’m just going to go for it. And I thought I’d give you the bullet points first. Then you can decide if you really want to keep reading today… Read More He Asked For Her Number: Part Two
It was several years ago that we were alone in her new kitchen unpacking boxes and talking like only sisters can, when I knew I needed to ask her a question. The divorce papers had been filed, and she had moved to a new town, gotten a new job, and moved into a new house.… Read More He Asked For Her Number: Part One
This is Owen. He started school today like millions of other kids, but I can’t believe it. There is so much I need to get done today, but I’m completely distracted by the fact that this kid started SCHOOL today. KINDERGARTEN. At the same school where his mom teaches. I got to see his new… Read More Too Much To Bear In The BEST Of Ways
It’s a new season of family life around here. I realized that again over the holidays when I was trying to create our annual Christmas card and discovered I had not even ONE photo of our whole family together from the previous year. So, taking family photos was a top priority for the four weeks… Read More Said Goodbye Again, But Not Without A Pic This Time