This weekend we celebrated the nineteen year anniversary of her departure from this world and her beckoning into the next.  And what a way to remember and rejoice in her life, but with the newness of her eleventh grandchild and her widowed husband bustling about, helping care for seven of them, just the […]

“A discerning man keeps wisdom in view, but a fool’s eyes wander to the ends of the earth.” Prov. 17:24 ~~~~ They got a little more than they bargained for when they put the sign out.   “Kids Eat Free Monday Nights”   One of the few local restaurants in the Lexington area, where we […]

A little girl in our home lost her first tooth this past week… ….and a mother caught a glimpse of God’s work.       That five year old was thrilled to show all of her friends, including her “best” friend, our neighbor, who spends the afternoons and most evenings with us while she waits for […]

“In the beginning….” I read it again, just as I did at this time last year. Beginning a new Bible reading plan, in hopes that THIS year there won’t be quite so many gaps in my completion of it. Last year I had begun the year with high hopes and simple and tangible goals. A […]

They were all piled on the bed. Sprawled out during our nightly family devotions. We are reading through the Bible as a family, and we’re camped out in the book of Numbers right now. I know, I know, not exactly an attention-grabber book of the Bible for little ones. But you would be surprise, how […]

This kid, the one that loves babies, is obsessed with holding his little brother. Sometimes to the point of harassing me. There was a mini-war-turned-formal-schedule over which sibling got to hold Judah during family devotions each night. And if Mommy actually has to be nursing during the scheduled hold-Judah-night there is no lack of impatience. […]

When Danny and I were first married, we kissed at probably every stoplight…we called it red light romance. Now we can’t even kiss once in a blue moon at a stoplight without comments from the peanut gallery…the crew filling the back seats, and most recently from our three year old, of all people. We were […]