Last year’s women’s retreat. Don’t think we’ll be playing broom hockey on the frozen lake this year. Yesterday at church, I gave an announcement about our upcoming women’s retreat. (April 15-17th. You should come!) I love planning for this event each year. I love helping to provide the opportunity for fellowship, good biblical content, and… Read More The Wonderful Women Of My Week
Last weekend Kayla, her friend Mary, and I got to go to YEC ~ the Youth Encountering Christ conference. It’s our denomination’s winter teen conference and this was the 35th anniversary. I’ve dropped kids off there before and picked them up again, but I’ve never stayed for the whole weekend. This time I stayed, and… Read More Only 3.2 Chapters A Day
The lunch date was July 15, so it’s been a little over six months now. We were at our annual youth camp, held every year at Gordon College, and just a hop, skip, and a jump from Lars and Elisabeth’s home in Magnolia, MA. Elisabeth had passed away in June, we’d been to the memorial… Read More Lunch With Lars: Root Beer Marinated Steak Tips & Holy Moments
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
Mother’s Day 2009 This is a re-post from 2009. Nothing has changed except that everyone is now at least 3 inches taller than me, and it’s not ice skating lessons, ballet, field trips, and Little League games, but coordinating the use of the car, track practice, job schedules, college visits and care packages. I still believe… Read More Still The Best Convent
Yesterday I made my third airport run (in a car, not on foot) in six days. We said goodbye to family over the weekend, dropping them at airports in New York City and Boston. Then we had to say goodbye to Robert who headed to Texas and Oklahoma out of Hartford yesterday for two weeks… Read More Running in the New Year (With the Forerunner)
This morning had me up early and in the shower for two purposes: getting myself clean and scrubbing the tile. I learned this whole clean-the-shower-while-you-are-in-the-shower trick from my friend Tamyra in Oklahoma. Always multi-tasking. Always. And the reason I want a super-clean bathroom is because in just a few short hours my littlest nephew will… Read More Baked Some Cookies, Had A Party, Read a Story, Made Some Gifts…
Christmas is nine days away. There are menus and meals and cookies to make, groceries to be bought, and parties to be hosted and attended. There is a track meet to attend and daily practices to travel to. There are movie dates and skating dates to arrange with teen friends. There are beds to be… Read More Overcome, But Overcoming
Now that I think about it, I’m pretty sure a final exam does not technically meet the definition of a festivity (the celebration of something in a joyful and exuberant way), but maybe the completion of the final exam does. I took my final exam in Systematic Theology I (cosmological, moral, and teleological arguments, the… Read More Final Exams And Other Festivities