My toddler has discovered that by pushing a lever on the front of our refrigerator, he can make ice or water rain down. Every time I forget to lock out the rain, he reminds me. Aren’t toddlers amazing? Today, he filled a cup with water, then spilled half of it all over the floor leaning…

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Hope buried in white Paralyzed. Waiting. Longing. Spring breathes gentle green. (I’m participating in a creativity challenge hosted by Penseive Robin at Incourage. Click the link to learn more, join in, and read other contributions.)

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We learned today about Churches Helping Churches (www.churcheshelpingchurches.com), a partnership of churches worldwide, including Mars Hill in Seattle, Harvest Bible churches everywhere, and many more. They are raising money and resources to help rebuild the churches devastated by the earthquake in Haiti. The world will rebuild Haiti. We must help our brothers and sisters in…

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I’ve been busy this week managing a new medical crisis with one of the kids (as I suspected, our Little Boy has more secrets) and planning a secret weekend getaway for my husband, so I hope you’ll forgive the lack of writing originality as we enjoy some quiet time away together. This is a repost…

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Two of my four children have had open heart surgery. In fact, between the two of them we’ve gone through six open-heart surgeries. It’s a heavy responsibility to sign papers consenting for your child’s surgery, anesthesia, and blood transfusions after they give you the speech about all the potentially-fatal risks of everything they are going…

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It’s 4:40pm, and I’ve run out of energy before I’ve run out of day. My youngest has been sick for weeks, had an allergic reaction to another medication yesterday, and is soon heading to the O.R. for a surgical solution to this problem which can no longer be treated medically. He also didn’t take a…

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