Month: September 2011

to say that i have been in a sour mood lately is about right. sour like a lemonhead. ( not the group). i have many things to be grateful for. many. healthy blessings. a teacher with a great job. (jobs) a home that has four walls. a bathroom that will may be complete this week….

the cupcakes have been delivered. the calories consumed. the flour swept off the floor. after 16 dozen cupcakes. 7 days of baking. kennedy will be sending $783 to the http://thecupcakekids.org/ . can i get a halleluiah?!!!!! of course we had to have some taste testers along the way… she was so excited to be able…

its not one of the stories you tell new moms. or soon to be moms. the story of how my second blessing entered the world. this labor and delivery story was not featured in the “what to expect when your expecting” series. it should have been a lifetime special instead. but since lifetime never picked…

years ago the teacher and i worked at a residential home for children. we moved there when are oldest blessing was six months old. and we had been married three months. we had moved from michigan to illinois and left all of our support system. let me just tell you. this is not the way…

ten years ago. its been that long since my first was in preschool. ten long years. and apparently i have forgotten a few things along the way. or as i like to refer to it as- my head has become mush. just mush. when the first blessing started school i was astonished by other mothers….

today one of my blessings asked me if i had ever been to new york city. huh. nope never been there. walked the streets of slums in africa multiple times but never the bright lights of new york.but it got me to thinking. new york was on my list. on my list of things to…

this is what grace looks like around here this week. i called the teacher at school crying. well actually i called his best friend first.( he is a contractor) i needed to make sure that the whole house wasn’t going to fall down. just things i think about when you have a 120 year old…

a while back i heard a sermon by andy stanley. and i love me some andy stanley. maybe its the southern drawl thing. or the “say it like it is” ” step on every one’s toes” approach. whatever it is. i love it. anyways. he was talking about a letter he had written to his…