1. My hip pain continued to increase until I was at a breaking point two weekends ago. The most severe pain is while sleeping, which is also when your mind is most susceptible to discouraging thoughts. Really hard to fight back when you're barely awake. Up...
A couple weeks ago, a little purple plastic gun showed up at our house. I actually recognized it, so when I saw Corban playing with it, I thought it was a boy reunited with his long-lost toy. But when James noticed it during supper that night,...
We have a certain procedure for timeouts in our house.
• warning
• placement in timeout
• sitting there a few minutes
• restatement of reason placed in timeout
• declaration of God's command to children to obey their parents (at first, we do this for them, eventually they do...
Last week was an emotional week for me. To be fair, I hear that pregnant women are more emotional in general. But if this has been my most puke-filled pregnancy, it's also been the most tear-filled. After three days of tears, we climbed into bed and...
Have you ever been given a gift so big, so extravagant that you could only cry in response? Could only stare in shock, no words to break the moment? Could only think, Surely, this is not from man but from the Lord! We just did.
We haven't...
These two little rascals are some of the sweetest siblings we know.
They're also some of the dirtiest.
And they're preparing themselves to love and dirty another little rascal this February.
P.S. Just as a confession, I always nod along when the doctors say, "Oh, yes, there's the _________."...
Thankfully, our basement once looked like this with very little effort.
Sadly, it no longer does.
Thankfully, last Thursday we had a giant rainstorm, signifying the coming end of a long winter.
Sadly, much of the rain and melting snow found its way in our basement.
Thankfully, James had...
We hesitated when the discount came through my email. A great deal, to be sure. What we weren't sure of, however, was the idea of lessons in general. We're still not done deciding. We love to enhance a life through new experiences; we just don't want to...
A couple months ago, our life group had our annual fall camping discussion. (Yep, it took that much advanced planning to get us all in town on the same weekend!) But now that we're Shaffer-less (miss you guys!), we have a whole lot less motivation...
