I spent some time this afternoon inputting events into the online scheduling program I use. I don’t do Google calendar and sync everybody’s and blah blah blah. I am the calendar keeper. If I don’t know about it, it isn’t going to happen. So I use a program (Cozi) that also has a great...
Category: Life As We Know It
One Crazy Weekend (Starting School)
I doubt any future “start of school” adventure we have will ever be able to top this year’s craziness. Just sayin’. Kindergarten is our first adventure of its kind. We’ve never done preschool. My kids haven’t had a church nursery for over a year. We have done life together, up close and personal. And...
Confessions
I let my kids play in the pouring down rain the other day. Timmy, Megan, & Alex splashed in the puddles, ran around, went tearing down the hill to jump into the puddles. They fell down in the mud. I’m pretty sure Timmy ate some mud. Megan threw some mud at the back of...
WWAVD?
WWAVD…What would Ann Voskamp do? When Jen Hatmaker wrote that in a blog a while back, I laughed out loud at my computer. WWAVD…Awesome. Because, though a bit late to the One Thousand Gifts party, I got there. And like most of us, I am often uplifted and touched by her blog. But I also...
This Week
This week…we laid to rest Eric’s Grandpa Hogue. He was 92 years old. He loved his wife of 64+ years, loved my kids, loved to pick apples. He struggled with the robotic barn Alan built, but he loved all the people who came to see it. He was a die-hard high school sports fan,...