Archive for the ‘Spiritual’ Category
“Everybody likes me, I announced to my mother one day when I was still a toddler. I don’t remember this youthful burst of confidence, but my mother told me about it a few months ago. It seems so unlike me that every time I think of it I smile. I wasn’t bragging [...]
A few months before Caleb was born, Mary Beth had a brilliant idea for me to start a journal for Caleb. Hopefully, it will be a place where I can write down some of God’s wisdom for him to read when he’s a young man someday.
I know there will be some teenage years when [...]
As I sit at the computer, I can hear Caleb gurgling and cooing in the next room while Casey talks to him. I wrote the excerpt below while I was still pregnant with Caleb; rereading it reminds me once again of how wonderful it is to have expectations fulfilled.
March 21, 2006
Sometimes it seems that [...]
We recently spent the weekend with my husband’s grandparents in northwest Arkansas. We enjoyed spending time with them and introducing them to their new great-grandson. At 83, Casey’s granddad is the oldest of all of our grandparents; he has lived a long, full life and could spend hours telling stories of all that he [...]
Mary Beth and I sat down last night to design our Family Mission Statement together. It took us a while to come up with an idea, but Mary Beth was the one who decided to use verbs to define how we wanted our family to be. We both sat at the computer for [...]
