I'm not planning to make a permanent return to blogging, but I thought this was the best platform to share my latest birth story.  If ...

With Christmas over and the decorations put away, I often take time in January to think about my goals for the coming months.  I don'...

For the wages of sin is death,  but the gift of God   is eternal life  in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23 We rejoice in the ho...

We've had our share of infamous Christmas memories. Like the year Gavin was a toddler and sneaked downstairs before anyone else was...

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In my most recent post about hospitality , I promised I had one more thing to say: If hospitality is about fostering relationships, ...

This is Wednesday: crazy sous chef making pumpkin pie And now Thursday: all six kids and an outtake two ...

I talked about some happy Thanksgiving memories , but Thanksgiving 2014 will go down in our family history as a bad one.  On the Tuesday ...

When I shared  how our family uses the library , I implied that one reason I don't scan the shelves is to avoid twaddle-- poor qualit...

I've had several in-real-life questions from in-real-life friends about how we use the library: how often we go and how I find the b...