Can you believe Christmas is just a few weeks away? In our house, we have a lot of different traditions – everything from the recipes I share with my family to how we pick out a Christmas tree to the way we open presents on Christmas morning. I love Christmas. It really is my favorite…
Whew! The last few weeks have been a whirlwind. I think I’ve only been home four or five days in the last month. Seriously. It’s been crazy. Between my husband and I we drove nearly 10,000 miles in the last month. Yikes! And even when I’m home, it often seems like I’m not really home….
This morning was hard. Well, let me back up. So yesterday, I woke up at 3:30, got Hannah ready and we headed out for the 2 1/2 hour drive to Knoxville to our ice rink. I watched Hannah’s hour long lesson and then watched her skate for another hour until the ice time was over…
I can’t believe I did this yesterday. So, my husband called me and told me to come to the lawyers office he was at in a meeting. He wanted me to come get Laura’s birth certificate so we could go open a bank account for her. He said the birth certificate was sitting on the…
18 Summers 18 summers. It’s all we get. When you think about it, childhood is so very fleeting. When your children are little and the days are long and hard, you think it will last forever. You can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel. And then one day, you realize that your…
I received the following question on my post, The Blessings of Family Worship, and thought it was such a great question that I should share my answer with all of you! How to Have Family Worship with Little Ones Q: This sounds so beautiful and what I hope for my family. But I am just not…