As anyone who has read this blog for a while knows, our last baby, Lucy, was born with six toes on her left foot. The doctor assured us this was much more common than we may know, and that the extra toe could be easily removed in a few months. But as that baby grew,…
I have just come back to the land of the living after finishing a big Christmas project I’ve been working my heart out on and getting my portion of the wedding invitations in the mail. Phew! Wedding planning during Christmas is not for the weak of heart I tell you, and sometimes I think I’m…
As anyone who has read this blog for a while knows, our last baby, Lucy, was born with six toes on her left foot. The doctor assured us this was much more common than we may know, and that the extra toe could be easily removed in a few months. But as that baby grew,…
Happy December! We all woke up and said “rabbit” first thing this morning. Because it’s December 1st and according to Dave’s family, that one little word said first thing before anything else will bring you good luck all month. So now December has no choice, it’s gonna be a good one 🙂 We watched the…
Tomorrow is December 1st. And I am so excited because that means THIS (below) is kicking off: (You may have noticed that little red box on the right side of this blog and clicked on it before today…if you haven’t that’s the video it shows…and I could watch it a hundred times I just think…
We headed to California for MLK weekend. Dave and I left a day early for some doctor appointments (that ended up being cancelled which was a fiasco in and of itself, but I’ll spare that drama for another day:) We met up with some friends and biked our little hearts out exploring new places, our…
I’ve been thinking lately about how we each, individually, find ourselves in our own personal wildernesses. Over and over again. Are you with me? It could be a lost job, a lost relationship, a valley of misunderstandings, a loss of hope. And sometimes, just a really, really scary or unknown situation. Claire is in the…
This year, in the midst of all the holiday hoopla, there were two times the world stood still for a bit. At least for me. I was so grateful for the beautiful stillness as we experienced some heart-healing at the Cathedral of the Madeleine…and our church too. As I mentioned a few posts ago, we…
I am up in Utah with my Grace moving her into her new apartment up here. Letting her go. Again. Gosh this motherhood dealio sure is chock full of “letting-gos.” So it’s interesting this video somehow showed up in my feed today: Holy smokes, little did I know back then, those four little girls lighting…