Jaeda

Jaeda wears her "Cinderella" shirt and skirt as often as she possibly can. Slash every skirt/dress she owns is called her Cinderella dress. And she loves drinking soup--grapefruit soup, pineapple soup, actual soup:) This is my dress. James...

We're still figuring out how our own family Christmas will work. We currently celebrate just us at some point before we leave to be with family. Maybe in the future this will be on Christmas Day, but for now, we really love using James' time off...

The day we got home from Thanksgiving celebrations, we picked up a tree and brought up the Christmas boxes. Sometimes I wonder why we do it all for just over a month of this Christmas season, but there's something about the traditions and specialness of...

When Corban and Jaeda choose to love each other, they oooooze it on, making sure I hear every second of it. On this day, Corban insisted that Jaeda wear only the finest of clothes--his. So she sported a large I am a big brother shirt for this babysitting day....

I like to claim at least a half part contribution to the adorableness of these children. Especially to all the folks who see just me and the kids out in public and wonder incredulously where they got their red hair. I mean, come on! But for...

They were up and came down. They were raked all around. They've been jumped in and squished. And were covered in snow mush. Now they're gone, all gone. And all we have is brown lawn. ...

This precious girl has grown in her love for music. If she's not singing (any song under the sun), she's playing the piano (and singing). If not playing the piano (and singing), she's dancing with her daddy (or brother, in Daddy's absence) while I play the piano and sing. Can we just pause...

Warsaw hosted 16 statues from Seward Johnson's collection of more than 450, a collection that has been all over the world. He started sculpting out of metals like aluminum and bronze back in the 70s, and of the 16 that graced our little town, I saw...

  It's been so refreshing to step into the living room to see Corban and Jaeda playing kindly together. For the most part, they really like each other. But on the days when choosing love is just too hard for them, we're working on gentle reminders that...

I've gotten to be away for a whole weekend two months in a row! In September, it was our annual Father/Daughter Retreat in Northern Michigan. In October, it was the True Woman Conference in Indianapolis with lovely, God-fearing women from our church. James and I...