Husbands are grown boys, you know, and boys need to find out what makes you crazy and do it. Just to see you be crazy. If I had known this, I never would have let on that I don’t like the claustrophobic feeling of being restrained. But somehow we were sitting on the couch one…
My dad loved nothing more than to help us out. I wish I had kept some accounting journal over the last few decades, so I could show you how many times he paid for things like new tires, credit card debit, appliances, and crunched fenders, to say nothing of how many broken everythings he repaired…
I had to get up like normal people yesterday morning and be at work by 8:15. Usually I’m heading out the door at 11:30, to work part time at the Christian school. Can I just say that you people who work full time are super heroes. I felt a little whiny that I was showered…
Yesterday morning I spent an hour making sausage potato bites for my guys. I found the recipe in the 2012 Celebrate magazine, and Matt and Caleb got tears of joy in their eyes when they tried them for the first time. A combination of Jimmy Dean, hashbrowns, and Parmesan, these little babies are what Montana…
Dear friends, Today is my birthday! The big four-six, and you should know I’m a little ridiculous on the inside about the whole birthday thing. It’s like when I was six years old I stopped maturing and still jump up and down over cake and presents. Presents! I was laughing at myself the other day,…
This weekend I drove away from my mother and my daughter, and I think there should be a law against that. I drove to Wyoming by myself, to visit my mom, and we had the most wonderful time. She took me to a little place in Lander called The Middle Fork, where I ate the…
After staring at this blinking cursor all morning, with nary a blog post idea in site, my two nieces, ages 10 and 8, came into the front room of my mom’s house. Hey girls, I can’t think of a blog post for Monday. Maybe you should help me, I said. I told them I…
After stopping at my daughter and son-in-law’s apartment in Bozeman, the halfway point on my way to visit my mom in Wyoming, I packed up my suitcase in the morning and pulled it over snow-covered sidewalks to my car. Driving out of the parking lot, I took the detour around a construction site on the…
I came to Pinterest to share only and not to look. I don’t see any point in looking at crafts I will never make, although, in an uncharacteristic wave of creativity, my husband and I did re-invent our Christmas tree this year by looking at Pinterest pictures. When did you decide to go with a…
Those men of mine and I were sitting around the table ,on one cold evening during the holidays. Caleb had his laptop, with headphones on, writing a song. Matt was working the Mexican blanket puzzle that our friends thought was a good idea for a Christmas gift but which has caused us to think…
You should have heard us at church last Saturday night. That preacher man –who looked mighty fine –had us looking back on all the good in 2015. Three years ago we started a debt emancipation to pay off our building mortgage of 1.3 millions dollars, and today it is payed off. What do we say…
There were rumblings in a certain family on New Year’s Day. I won’t say who, but certain people with sermons and other people who were enjoying sleeping in every day and other people who had Spanish class to think about might have been moaning about getting back into the swing of things soon. I thought…
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