August 2th 2024 So one of my favorite pieces is listening to the personal stories of some of the missionaries. We heard from Shawn and Melissa and I cannot tell you what tribe they are from…but they are a family of 5 and when she was pregnant with the last…they had to travel back to their village. 8 hours on …
August 22nd 2024 I say I want to do this not only to give those of you interested in our lives..updates..but also for me to be able to look back on life and see what was happening and how we handled it because the reality is…my brain is not remembering things. I am not whole. I am very scattered…alot of …
I just found a new song…well its an old one…do you remember the movie…with the song. The movie where Morgan Freeman who goes to principle the school who is full of hoolagins and troublemakers…in the hood of I don’t remember what city (new york?). Lean on Me. Do you remember? Today I did something I had put off and then …
March 15 2024 I blinked. And it was March. I actually hear birds chirping this morning but I also hear garbage trucks picking up the recycling…which is a combo of back up beeps, loud engines, squeaky hydrolics and lots of bangs from putting the containers back down. No one can sleep to that! March is hopeful to me. It’s the …
December 20th, 2023 Well there you have it and now you know. I am the most consistant inconsistant person I know. I can laugh at it and I hope you do as well but it does cause some great frustration for me. Not with blogging…like who cares. It’s not like it pays me. But when I can’t conisistantly clean my …
Dec 8 I only stay up late when my kids come home. The funny thing is I’m sitting in my living room alone so I have no one to blame but myself. The college kiddo went to pump iron with Hatcher at the gym. She had an indoor meet today at GVSU and so I was running around like crazy …
Dec 7, 2023 When I was a younger mom of 6 kids, I wanted to be the best home maker (but not home cleaner, lets be clear on this). I wanted to make and serve them whole foods that I made from scratch and skip all the junk from the stores. Somewhere in there I found a group called Momma …
December 7, 2023 I make lists. I make them in my head, on my hand, in a notebook I can never find, on junk mail (I can never find) on my Bible notes while in church, in my phone, on the back of reciepts…on napkins. I make lists on any writable object just so I can get the thought from …
December 5th Rings. I wear two. I wear my own and I wear Marks on my right middle finger. I love them. Someone gave Mark a liturgy book when he was sick. I never looked at it but thought it was pretty and then Cora was sending me a gift when she was in Kosovo because a friend there had …
I got a seized dog. Good Morning! I really should be getting on those shorts and shoes and getting that workout in. I’ve been slowly getting back into lifting and working out…and let me tell you, its hard! I’ve lost so much core strength and mobility even. Its discouraging for sure but I’m not going to let that stop me …
