THE JOURNAL

There is a place I go each week where, if need be, I can guarantee my faith is restored, any hardness I have in my heart is softened, and where a broken spirit is reconnected.  That place is my church.  Depending on how I feel on Sunday morning, I usually find a spot in the […]

It was December 24th, 2005.  While most people were probably coaxing their kids into getting into bed for fear that if they stayed up Santa wouldn’t come, I was throwing a birthday party for one of Melissa’s friends.  Not that I really cared. I had always had bad luck with the Christmas season so it […]

I have one good picture of Addisyn from this past week. One. Editing just one picture of her is like having just one slice of the blueberry pie that is currently sitting in my fridge: leaving me wanting more… Fortunately for me, I get to wake up to this beautiful face everyday. How sweet it is to be […]

Because it is Friday… Because I just chowed down on some Chipotle… Because I have a date with some other mommies… and becauseI have LOVED reading all the of entries, I have decided to announce the winner of the giveaway. I went to http://www.random.org/ to choose a random number between 1 and 20 and the […]

For this week’s blog post, Steve and I each took on the question, “What is it like to be a mother/father?” Without any further guidance we split off to our respective computers and began to write… What it’s like to be a mother… When I was a teenager, I was asked to go on a […]