Sometimes the pace of life seems impossible due to things out of my control, but in the case of the Mother’s Day Half Marathon, the pace was within my control, and I chose to go faster than ever before, shaving 6 whole minutes off my previous personal record. It was all Betsy’s fault, really. If… Read More Impossible Pace, Inscrutable God
Don’t know how I ever found time to blog for 40 plus days during Lent, but it was such a good and healing experience for me. Today I’m sitting down catch up here when I really have a million other obligations awaiting. But I can hardly move this morning after the activity level of the… Read More Catchin’ Up {but not really…}
Decisions: I’m so relieved, but now I’m having trouble sleeping! Last night I kept having crazy college dreams and obsessive thoughts about the logistics of getting Kory to Texas for all of the necessary college activities this summer now that he knows where he will attend. {Lord willing, of course…} Kory was in complete agony… Read More Decisions, Intercessions, Accusations
I’m a day late, but for some reason Blogger wasn’t working last night, and I couldn’t log in to my blog. So, I sat in a chair drinking tea, watching the final episode of “The Bible” with Robert and the kids, and being thankful for the wonderful season of Lent and the great Resurrection Day… Read More Celebrating Together {Resurrection Sunday!}
Today is our last day of skiing for the season, and it also happens to be the first day of World Vision’s 30 Hour Famine that my boys will be participating in. Their final meal is supposed to be lunch today, and they will break their 30 hour fast at 6pm on Saturday evening. The… Read More Gluten Free Friday ~ Feasting Before the Famine Bars {Lent Day #32}
Summer vacations on the rocky coast of Maine, walking the historic streets of Boston, fall backpacking trips through the White Mountains of New Hampshire, eating out and shopping in NYC, and now weekly ski trips to Vermont ~ over mountain passes with covered bridges in the background? Sometimes this Texas girl can’t believe her own… Read More Storehouses of Snow {Lent Day #18}
“Something has gone terribly wrong. And everyone knows it.” is how the chapter on the Fall opens in the book Doctrine by Driscoll and Breshears. The last few days around here have proven it over and over, and I’m not talking about the frustrations inherent in every sewing project, but they are a good illustration!… Read More Imperfect Patterns {Lent Day #8}
We set aside Saturday morning to do the first of three sewing projects for Kayla’s Quest. Kayla’s friend Maddie is also trying to complete a Quest, so we hoped to have her over for the project, too. We set up two sewing machines, had the fabric and other tools all ready to go, and were working… Read More Kayla’s Quest: Sewing Projects, 5K’s, Nursing Home Outreach, Etc.
There have been plane trips made, knees replaced, groceries bought, pies made, turkeys brined, guests hosted, a Christmas tree chopped, a Christmas tree lit, Elf watched, a house decorated, a church hung with greens, advent bags hung, and snow twice fallen… …emails returned, a debate competition hosted, essays graded, Latin quizzes made, homework prizes given,… Read More Crazy Weeks Cute Hats
Did you know there really are some harms in NOT having your Challenge I tutor bring you pizza for lunch every Tuesday? It’s true. And they would be very convincing, too, if they weren’t completely ridiculous. But it was the resolution for the first practice debate for my Classical Conversations Challenge I class. Resolved: … Read More Harms of the “No Pizza” Status Quo…