An anonymous person posted to my last blog entry a comment that I have decided to respond to here, rather than just in the comments. First, they said “‘Me time’ is a lie.” However, in Genesis we learn that God rested on the 7th day. In the Torah, over and over we read God instructing…

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We currently serve in a small church just a few miles from our home. We’ve been there for nearly 5 years, so I’m in the midst of guiding my 3rd child through the toddler stage there. (And since Elli was so developmentally delayed, she never really left the toddler stage either.) Through this time, I’ve…

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I learned something interesting quite by accident yesterday. We invited a family over for dinner who we had never met. They have three young children, just like ours. The same day I also needed to run our kids up to stay at the grandparents’ house for the weekend. That entailed some brief packing and then…

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Today I took about two minutes to sweep our small kids’ bathroom and put a freshly-washed bath mat down. It’s the only TLC I’ve given the room in awhile and it was badly needed. As in, you could measure the time since my last cleaning by counting the toothpaste strata on the counter. When I…

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My husband Scott was looking through his hard drive this morning and found this note he wrote 2 years ago, the day we learned that our fourth child was to be our second child with serious congenital heart defects. Now, looking back 2 years later, we can praise God for so many answered prayers, including…

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Spread the Word to End the Word is a National Awareness Day sponsored by the Special Olympics to raise the consciousness of society about the dehumanizing and hurtful effects of the word “retard(ed)” and encourage people to pledge to stop using the R-word. Respectful and inclusive language is essential to the movement for the dignity…

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