Category Archives: family life

- for new friends to share joyful potlucks with. – for other new friends who encourage and challenge me. – for forty days of Easter. – for children who are patient with me and fine with dyeing eggs and getting … Continue reading →

February has not been great for reading and writing or for keeping up with life in general. Michael has been working day and night, seven days a week (go Mock Trial teams!) and I’ve had several migraines. Quite frequently, the … Continue reading →

I’ve been writing. Not everyday, but most days I spend an hour or more watching the cursor blink and choosing words. The trouble is, I am not quite sure what to write. I finished a project that had me busy … Continue reading →

I’ve had a hard time putting away Christmas this year, which I usually do either Epiphany or the following day, with very little sadness. Things feel okay at the moment, but tenuously so. As if one or more of us … Continue reading →

Life has been crazy this week. The chaos was dominated by two evenings cheering for WA basketball (quadruple headers.) But I also snapped some newborn photos for a friend, wrote, met an old friend for lunch passing through town, took … Continue reading →

in the new year i will endeavor to… keep reading and write everyday make a cozier, tidier home have people over often create lovely things, just because eat better and exercise make music read with the girls teach them handcrafts … Continue reading →

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a television journalist. I could see myself standing on the steps in front of the Capitol building or the Supreme Court, explaining the day’s political news. Wanting as much preparation as … Continue reading →

I feel like this is as good an example as any of who Kate and Lexi are right now. In their membership transfer interview, our new senior pastor asked them what they wanted to be when they grew up. Kate … Continue reading →

After saying she missed our old church every week since we moved, Lexi made it through the last two Sundays without complaining. This past week we went to an evening service at another church and she asked me why they … Continue reading →

We have been going-going-going lately and though it’s been fun, it’s also a little exhausting. It really cheered me up when coming home tonight to see that we’d been BOOed. We live in such a friendly neighborhood, which is very … Continue reading →