I decided it had been a while since I had down-loaded the photos off of my phone.  I remembered some, but also found some random ones the children obviously took.  I...

cinewsletter.blogspot.com Today I was made aware of the death of one of my children’s classmates.  One of our little fourth graders passed away on Monday from a long battle with cancer. ...

npr.org Have you ever had one of those Sundays where the cosmos seems to conspire against you?  Four days ago was like that for me. As the 2nd Counselor in my...

dreamstime.com (This is how we felt). Have you ever considered illness to be a blessing?  I usually don’t either.  But this week, illness has blessed our family.  Our schedule was crazy!...

THIS one! I took Sport to the scouting office yesterday to get his Eagle Scout paperwork finished off so he can turn it in since his 18th birthday is two weeks...

The basketball season is in full swing here at our house.  We have two boys playing community ball and one playing school ball.  Four games a week, minimum.  This weekend Shorty...

Drew and I have been married 24 years today!!!  Hip hip hooray!!!  I have learned so very, very much!  Here are some snip-its, 24 snip-its in fact: Marriage is hard work.  ...

We don’t have amazing family Christmas traditions, they are just simple.  Each child gets one gift.  We eat a fancy dinner on fancy dishes.  I wish we all dressed for dinner,...

Both of my college boys asked me to cut their hair while they were home for Christmas.  Yes, I cut hair.  It has probably saved our family millions of dollars!  Seriously...

Have you ever wondered if you signed some contract in the pre-existence??  I’ll explain what I mean in a minute.  First, a little background information.  One of our fundamental beliefs as...