August was a big month for our family: we celebrated a milestone birthday; got underway with some new ventures (a Classical Conversations community for the family, and American Heritage Girls for Kali ...
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What I Learned This Summer . . . About Faith, Family, Floods, & First Birthdays (plus a few more things).
I’m toying with the idea of moving to a year-round school schedule for our homeschool. The biggest reason is that summer is actually the worst time of year for our family to ...
Nickelson Ryan || Twelve Months Old!!!
Happy Birthday to my precious Nico-Nico! One year ago today you burst into our lives and our hearts in the most humbling, gloriously imperfect fashion. In many ways, yours was the birth ...
First Response
I knew from the moment he plodded into the van and plopped into his booster seat that something was wrong. After nine long hours at church camp, Charleston would usually be buzzing ...
Lately || July 2025
July brought unfathomable tragedy to many Texans, including some just miles from my home. It feels wrong to keep on with life as usual when life has changed or even ended for ...
What do “they” owe us? (A thoughtful approach to content creation and consumption.)
Back in June, NY Times journalist David Marchese interviewed comedian Andrew Schulz for The Daily. Though I was only vaguely familiar with the comedian prior to the interview, it was one of the ...
How I Have Changed in the Last Ten Years
Before we begin: if you missed last Thursday’s post, in which I first broached this topic and explored my hangups around the question of “How have you changed in the last ten ...
How Have You Changed in the Last 10 Years?
Back in the spring, I listened to a podcast episode titled How Have You Changed in the Last 10 Years? In it, podcast host Laura Tremaine and her longtime friend, Meg Tietz, ...
Just Asking
“Kaaaallleeeee! Is THAT where your SHOES go?” I heard Sully call across the house to his sister. The rhetorical question was Sully’s not-so-subtle reminder for Kali to pick up the shoes she’d ...
Lately || June 2025
My three big kids spent the night at their grandparents’ house last Friday. This was a near-first for all of us: other than the one night Luke and I spent in the ...