Reevaluating

There was a slight chill in the air as our family piled into the van that Sunday after church. Sliding into the front seat, I wrapped my sweater more tightly around my ...

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Lately || November 2023

November wins first prize for “most diverse month”: it comes on the heels of Halloween and spooky season, winds its way through fall happenings and Thanksgiving, then ushers in the Christmas festivities. ...

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Eleven Things I Learned This Fall

Fall is our family’s busiest season. Even without the sports involvement that occupies many families’ hours during the autumn months, we always pack a lot into September, October, and November, and this ...

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Faithful 11.23—Bold Prayers

The women’s Bible study I’ve been a part of for years is studying the book of Genesis this year. When this theme was announced at the start of the semester, there was ...

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Lately || October 2023

Fall took its merry time, but decided to make an appearance here in Texas as September’s scorching temps gave way to drizzly, cooler weather for a few lovely weeks this month. But ...

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Lately || September 2023

This post is coming to you from the front seat of our brand new (to us) truck as our family inches our way toward the Texas coast, a trailer hitched behind us. ...

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Lately || August 2023

I have heard a lot of chatter this August about how it is one of the hardest and most stressful months, with chaos levels equalling that of May and December. I must ...

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T-E-N Years

In the last ten years I have. . . moved three times; celebrated five and then ten and then (almost) fifteen years of marriage; become a mother of one, and then (after ...

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28 Perks of Life in 2023

I have dedicated a lot of brain space (and blogging words) to grieving the ways our world has changed in my lifetime. I hate the moral decline we are witnessing, the elevated ...

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Lately || July 2023

Summer vacation is winding down for our family, but we are making the most of these waning summer days and packed this month FULL! Here’s a look at my world in the ...

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