Dear Friend, October is always such a fun and busy month: pumpkin patches and hay rides, apple picking, cider and “fall food”, the boys’ over-the-top excitement about their costumes for Halloween (Will is Sir William the Brave and Sam is ‘Dark’ Vader), my birthday. As Anne Shirley said in the book Anne of Green Gables: “I’m so…
There is so much beauty around me these days and I haven’t taken enough photographs. But I wanted to share a little of the loveliness….
Dear friends,
It has been a year since I last wrote in this blog! It has been a year of loss and change, excitement and discovery…and writer’s block.
Friends of mine live on the Gulf Coast of Florida. Someday I hope to write to you about their beautiful story. The other day, Donavan and Kasey posted fascinating videos of a nest of baby sea turtles who survived Irma and had just hatched on the beach in front of their home. A few of…
This last summer we said good-bye (for now) to my beautiful, 97-year-old grandmother, Lillian. She was a bright, spirited, fiercely independent lover of Jesus. Her life was a tapestry of God’s grace woven through the ordinary everyday of one who chose to live a life of service to Christ. Grandma’s parents were song evangelists in…
Dear Friends, The mornings are growing cooler and the days are shortening. Fall is around the corner–hip hip hooray! I’ve been thinking quite a bit about change lately
Dear Friend I hope you’re thriving despite this heat wave. The humidity and relentless high temperatures have drained all the energy out of me the last few days; it even (miraculously!) took a little out of my boys. Even so, we’ve been enjoying these high-summer days. Family came for a visit this month and the…
It’s the last day of the month and I’m still wondering where the first week went! It’s been busy around our house with swimming lessons and strawberry picking and family visits and tree-fort construction. The weather has been fine—if a little cool—in our part of the world. I’m sitting on my deck as I write,…
Ok. Yes. I know the calendar says that it is now the second day of June and that May has been boxed up and put on the shelf for next year. Unfortunately, I am a lifelong procrastinator. I lost track of time somewhere around Mothers’ Day and the last few weeks have been full to…
Dear friends, Oh, the life of the Mommy-Blogger. What does that title mean in real-time? It means my plans are always balanced precariously on the whims of home-life.
Letters From Home 