Field Trip Friday’s # 1
For our first field trip this year, we took the kids on a Nature Hike. Free, simple and not far from home! We loaded the kids into the van and headed out. We had…
How is Joel?
Recently, I have had a few people ask for an update on Joel. He is doing well. He is not who he was before surgery, but he is still my Joel. It is so hard, he…
Thanksgiving
The longer I live the more I am thankful, nothing in this life is guaranteed with the exception that we are all born and we will one day all die. The rest in the middle can be here…
Field Trip Fridays
I have decided to add a weekly feature to my blog. I am always a little leery of doing this. If the kids and I get sick or have a crazy busy week and I don’t post something…
Mexican Dip
As promised here is my recipe for Mexican Dip. Now I can’t rightly say why this is called Mexican Dip but that is how we know it. My whole family likes it and I have never met…
Dave’s Birthday
How do you make a Birthday special for someone who works night shift and is asleep all day?? Well, we all got up early (this huge for me, Samuel is still not doing well through the night)…
Grapes
This years garden was a bit of a disappointment, perhaps that is an understatement. Yet I knew not to expect much, Joel finished cancer treatment the end of May and then in June he started…
Last of the Mohicans….
I just found Joel asleep in bed with a copy of Last of the Mohicans laying beside him. That is pretty heavy reading for a six year old. 🙂
How I kicked the TV to the curb… (sort of)
Over the last several years I have had a bit of a love hate relation with the TV. If I wrote a pros and cons list I honestly can’t come up with many pros, my list would…
Please pray,
Some of you might remember back on July 1st that I asked you all to pray for a man named Youcef Nadarkhani. He was facing the death penalty for converting to Christianity. He was given 4 times…
