Some of you may have heard about a program called Financial Peace University. If you go to our church, you absolutely have heard of it! Over 1,000 of us are going through it together. It’s a class that promotes a way of handling money that is smart and also biblical. One of the main tenets […]
The other day, Carson and I got into a conversation about the Holy Spirit. This child doesn’t shy away from the deep stuff. It started because he asked me why I sometimes give money to the panhandlers on the freeway off-ramps, and other times I don’t. I didn’t have a good answer, really. I said […]
A few weekends ago, we had some changes in our plans that left a Sunday morning open. That is almost unheard of in this house, so Trent and I decided to be impulsive, and we took the kids to a new place in town that is basically bounce-house-mania. It’s a huge warehouse full of different bounce-house […]
Oh, Oprah. Did she coin the phrase “aha moment”? Because, dang her, I use it a lot, and I don’t like to owe Oprah anything, other than thanks for introducing me to a dozen very good books that are depressing as crap. (Map of the World? I Know This Much is True? Are you kidding […]
Remember that scene in White Christmas, where Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney are sitting around the cozy fire, late in the night? And he sings the song full of sage advice: “When I worry and I can’t sleep, I count my blessings instead of sheep and I fall asleep counting my blessings”? It seems this […]
There are just some parts of parenting that no book can prepare you for. And one of those parts is vomit. Yep. Puke. Up-chuck. Throw-up. Dealing with another human’s barf just cannot be described in a text. I remember the first time Asher threw up in our house. I got some on me, and then […]
I’ve decided to take a fast from F@cebook. I’ve noticed that I have an urge to check it multiple times a day. When I’m tired, don’t feel like tackling the to-do list, feeling a bit isolated from adult conversation or frustrated with unruly children, sitting down for a quick FB check and laugh and/or write […]
I’ve been using this phrase to try to convince people in my life that I am not just on an emotional high. 😉 I’m not kidding when I say Amy and I came home from our conference FIRED UP about creating a retreat for adoptive moms in the Northwest. We are two fairly proactive women, […]
Just FYI, we got a msg from our agency that the government in our son’s home country has just decided they don’t want us to post any public pictures until after finalization and we receive confirmation from that country. Well….a little too late in the game for that! Can’t put the genie back in the […]
This last weekend at Created for Care, I felt like I was in the minority for having only one adopted child. And many others that I met who had one adopted child were already in process for another…even if they had bio kids at home. Of course with this rich experience, learning so much about God’s heart […]