"sorrow manager"

Lucy told me a month or so ago that her biggest regret from junior high was that she didn’t try out for the basketball team. I somehow hoped she had forgotten about that. Which makes me feel awful because what kind of mom wants her child to forget about a…

This summer, instead of girls camp, the youth in our church congregation had the opportunity to go to something called FSY the next day (For the Strength of Youth). Kind of a glorified “summer camp” with counselors and classes and dances and so many opportunities to learn and grow. Lucy…

Today I am doing the “Come Follow Me” devotional again over on the Come Follow Me App. Talking about how amazing forgiveness is. Man alive, can you even believe the beauty of Joseph forgiving his brothers who left him for dead? That he not only forgave them but comforted them…

I always do a “snapshot” of how each new year looks right at the beginning. Because I like to hold onto memories like nobody’s business. And here we are already half way through MARCH and Grace is getting home from her mission TODAY, so I figure I better get busy…

I posted that Lucy’s basketball season was all wrapped up back HERE. But that actually wasn’t true because a sports season is never really wrapped up until the final banquet, right? So let’s just enjoy these sweet pictures my friend sent me from that big night. Sweetest friends. Sweetest coach.…

We are getting so far behind on these “little things” posts so I’m doing this one speedy-quick. Links at the bottom and intermixed in with the pictures if you want more details. Here’s how November went down…it was a nutty month I have to say! We started out with our…

Sometimes when I’m reading (or listening to) a good book I slow way down at the end. I’m just not quite ready for it to end. I situate my time and myself just so so that I can fully take in all the culminating events as it wraps up. I…

When I was a young mom, frustrated up to my eyeballs trying to teach my kids to do their jobs (oh you young moms, that can be a thankless job, and I’m here for you!), a more seasoned mother gave me some good advice: She told me after a job…

Lucy has always thrived in being “part of something,” so being the team manager for the basketball team has filled up her heart in so many ways. It’s not all butterflies and rainbows, of course, as nothing really is, is it? I think sometimes she’s holding herself together with every…