This is the fifth installment in a year-long blog party designed to help Sonlight celebrate 25 years of serving homeschoolers. In January, I introduced our family. February’s…
Today
This is the day. As much as anyone can ever be “ready,” we are. This is the day we are to meet our newest baby.
Knitting for the ninth
I’ve been a passionate knitter for quite some time, but the truth is I’ve never made a big push to knit for one of my…
Obla di obla da
It never ceases to amaze me how something can utterly blow up in your world and yet, life goes on.
Marking time
One thing about time in a new place– it just flows over you, no real rhyme or rhythm, no familiar milestones to mark its passing.…
Loss
It doesn’t take much to send me hurtling back to the moment I realized that the baby I had only just begun to accept as…
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…
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…
Birdie
We didn’t see her coming, which, in many ways, made her arrival all the more precious. After years of loss and hopelessness and, finally, surrender,…
We have all lost {#papawswatch} {#delta}
My Papaw never flew commercially. A practical family farmer with 25 years experience on a Detroit auto assembly line, he never grasped the physics of…