I love the little things in life 🙂 So much so that for years I’ve been working on a list of every little delightful thing I encounter – coffee, people, fresh coats of paint; which is why Hallie Lord’s Five Favorites link-up sounds like a fabulous time. Just a day after her post, I’m joining […]
99 Things: The Love Note Project
I love my husband. and I love shouting it from the mountaintops. He’s dashing (especially in a bow tie) and funny and patient and he can calm me down in a way no one else can. A sweet father, an encouraging man who doesn’t let me give up, and I could go on and on […]
Ask Not What Your Husband Can Do For You
It happened all the time. I was at home with our first son, totally exhausted expecting our second. After a long day of working and waiting for his arrival, my handsome breadwinner would pull up to the house, ready for some R&R from the daily grind. And that’s when it would start. It didn’t matter […]
Lent: Being Pre-Prayered and Sacrificing My Will
So…Lent starts this Wednesday!? Per usual, it totally crept up on me and now I’m scrambling to figure out what to give up. I don’t think the decision has to be made BY WEDNESDAY – I definitely want it to be more meaningful than rushed, though I like the idea of sacrificing something at the […]
The Master Bedroom: from Dreaded Place to Sacred Space
I love our master bedroom. I love retreating here, resting here, and reading here with Andrew or even alone. It’s a lovely place where I feel comfortable and peaceful, which is a slight contrast to the daily grind and tugging toddlers beyond the door. Before a week ago, I dreaded coming back here. I dreaded […]
Give Me the Simple Life
It’s January 21st and I’m trying to stay on my New Year’s Resolution horse. The goal is to rid my life of excess and to ensure that the things I have are either used well or, if necessary, are replaced with something sure to last. Extra papers, boxes, things I was keeping “just in case,” […]
My Husband, My Hero
Originally posted 17 July 2010: Andrew never ceases to surprise me, even when he doesn’t do so intentionally. I was searching frantically for our ringing cell phone and heard it coming from his shorts in the laundry. After rummaging through the loose change and keys to check the missed call, I found something unexpected instead: […]
The Perks of Waiting For Christmas
Merry Christmas, everyone! This year was the first time Andrew and I made concerted efforts toward celebrating Advent during Advent and waiting for Christmas to put up the tree and hang stockings with care. I have to say, the whole experience has been fantastic. It’s true that good things come to those who wait and […]
Venite Adoremus Dominum!
In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment, when Quirin’i-us was governor of Syria. And all went to be enrolled, each to his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the […]
What I Want to Be When I Grow Up
There are two professions that fascinate me and for most of my life, I’ve fantasized about taking one or both of them on. When I grow up, I want to be a truck driver or a mail carrier. No joke. Well, half-joke. A trucker came to my school when I was in 5th grade and […]
