When we took the kids to Disneyland for the first time, they were in high school. As we talked about our trip to California, our son was excited about Disneyland, but our daughter acted cool. Disneyland was for little kids, you know. Until we got there, and you should have seen her face on the…
Dear friends, I hope you have had joyful moments with the Lord during this season. I am taking one more week to rest my creative brain and enjoy family, so I am re-sharing with you today this blog post from a few years ago… The Flathead Electric Co-op Annual Meeting is not a really fun…
Here’s a great piece of advice for you to tuck away: It is a bad idea to fast and then, in the middle of the fast, decide to start reading the book called Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table, by Shauna Niequist. A week ago our senior pastor visited…
Dear friends, I am resting from blogging today to enjoy my family, but I am sharing with you this post that I wrote a few years ago. It’s one of my favorite Christmas stories. May God bring a rich and unexpected merriment to your Christmas celebrations. Because we’re a pastor’s family, Christmas Eve is a…
Hello, friends! I am resting from blogging this week, to do exactly what I have prescribed in this post, so here is a little something I wrote in early 2012. It seems a perfect reminder for us on a busy day. My son had a horrible cold, so I kept him home from school. There was…
Dad told me about 50 times that I’d better watch out, because one day that brother of mine would be bigger than me and able to lay me low. Whatever, I said. Of course, dad didn’t know that a few decades later I would find myself crying my way through the Celtic Woman’s Oh, Holy…
On Saturday afternoon, December 13, I went to the mall. I am okay. There were some Christmas presents I needed to get, but you know I never made it past the calendar kiosk. My favorite Christmas day activity is getting out my older calendar and writing down birthdays in the new one. A new year…
I woke up at 5:00 a.m. yesterday and got out of bed, but I was having a hard morning. A few words the night before had stirred up sorrow, and I couldn’t seem to shake my sadness. So I plugged in the Christmas tree (a real tree that my guys cut down in a real…
My calendar made me hyperventilate on Saturday morning. Well, the calendar didn’t make me –because it’s just a Wyoming Wildlife calendar with a picture of a great gray owl on it for the month of December. It was all my scribbles on the calendar that sucked the essence of life right out of my lungs,…
My mother gave me the most lovely copy of A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens. Hardback even, like rich people read. And I did open it and sniff the inside before I lay down on the couch next to Matthew so I could join him in reading. Just the two of us next to the…
Monday was such a great day that I was hyper in the evening, which is not normal. I went to Target at 8:00, you guys. For fun. I feel weird going out so late, I said to my son. He assured me many people go out at 8:00 at night, and it’s no big thing….
I suggested to both moms that perhaps going in on an E-reader would be the perfect gift for Matt’s birthday this November. So I could have my Kindle back, for Pete’s sake. They gave in, and I was able to buy a novel for my Kindle this Thanksgiving break, with the lofty goal of reading…
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