The hardest part of being here is seeing. Seeing the need. Seeing the disparity. Seeing the vain devotion. Seeing the truth.
Christmas in the air {elementary edition}
Let’s be honest: the elementary years are just plain fun when it comes to buying gifts. You probably don’t need a whole lot of direction…
Christmas in the air {high school edition}
Teens are notoriously hard to buy for. The assumption is that a CD with a $20 bill taped to the front cuts it– or, on…
{Work in Progress Wednesday}
“Knitting is cheaper than therapy– and you get mittens.” – Anonymous (Work in progress: A simple dishcloth of my own design in Lily Sugar ‘n Cream Psychadelic. The pattern…
Rhythm
I know it’s months (years?) away, but there will be a moment when all the things that right now feel so huge and different and…
Christmas in the air {middle years edition}
So you’re thinking about Christmas now. And you’re wondering … what on earth am I getting for my 12 year-old? Another Minecraft t-shirt?
Christmas in the air {toddler edition}
It’s October, you say. Christmas is forever away. Uh, yeah. About that. It’s not.
The Pausing Place
In reality, the breaking down of the conventions of “safe parenting,” happened the moment we said yes to a crazy idea like moving to a…
What’s that you say, God?
A few weeks ago, my oldest son asked me how present I thought God was with Adam and company after the fall. He had recently…
Laundry
Right now, school doesn’t get started until 10 a.m. at my house. Our regular start-time was 9 a.m. in the States. By that hour, I…