After church today, the kids and I went outside to get to our car. Dave had already left to go cut wood for our ceiling project that has been on hold for almost 2 years (YAY!!!!!), so it was just the kids and me. Walking out into the sunshine made me smile. As we all […]
Read MoreNew Year, New Start
Over the last many months, randomly Dave or I would look at each other and say something like, “This is something we should be blogging about,” and yet neither of us would pull the trigger. Why that is, I’m not really sure. I felt this pressure that we needed to be actually accomplishing something in […]
Read MoreThe Courting of Kawhi (or Unamazing Grace)
I enjoy listening to sports talk radio. When I am driving or doing some work around the house, I’m usually listening to either a podcast or sports radio, so I am generally current with the goings-on of the national sports scene. There comes a point however, where you can only take so much of a […]
Read MoreThe Fire Round
A few years ago, I exercised some seriously bad judgement. Judgment so bad that I ended up earning a spot on the local news. The headline ran something like “Local idiot starts big fire.” Let me explain. We have not had the privilege of buying “good land” in our homestead journey. We’ve not had the […]
Read MoreDreamers and Doers
(I wrote this fully meaning to publish right away…and then LIFE. There’s been a whole lot of doing the last 4 days. A. Lot. Phew! But here it is…still rings true whether published on time or not. 😉 ) I (Jessica) am home alone tonight….well, with the 3 middles…and my mind is….well, I wish I […]
Read MoreEaster Season is Upon Us
This morning at church, our pastor brought up a point I’ve never heard before. He said that Jesus’ “cup of suffering” wasn’t about taking on the sins of the world, or the pain that he would endure while carrying the cross, being whipped or dying on the cross, but rather that the suffering he didn’t […]
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