httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d51U1WLGp5g&feature=youtube_gdata_player Last week, we packed our entire family into the big, white van, and in the pouring rain, made a short drive to a school where our two oldest boys may attend next year. It's a school we've known and loved for many years.  It's the school where our oldest son went for Kindergarten through third grade - a private … [Read more...]

Have you discovered Scentsy? I hadn't until just recently, and of course, I wish I had given in sooner. Our whole house smells fall and festive, thanks to my sister who gave me my first Scentsy warmer as a gift for my 36th birthday.  The one she picked for me is  beautiful, and is called Nature's Haven.  You can see it by clicking here. Why am I telling you about my newest fun, … [Read more...]

I complain that my children knock the folded laundry, piled high, off our leather sofa. I fuss that 77 is not quite cool enough for me indoors since I'm hormonal and pregnant. I get irritated if the water takes too long to heat, that football practice interferes with my cooking, and I am sometimes very cranky if the baby catches a cold. On Saturdays, I give myself a pep talk before walking into … [Read more...]

We'd been friends for a lifetime, it seemed.  And although our friendship definitely wasn't ending, it hurt my heart that we wouldn't be growing old with these people.  We would never be working alongside them again, raising our kids together, crying, laughing, eating, praying together.  At least not physically, anyway.  I found myself on the greeting card aisle.  Lost.  … [Read more...]