The kids and I took a trip this weekend to Baldwin City, Kansas for the Maple Leaf Festival. Our family gathers there every October at my grandparent’s hundred year old home. I have fond memories of playing “Christmas” on the third floor with my cousins, sliding down the wooden staircase on a slick crib mattress, and jumping into…
Lessons from my Dad My dad had the questionable habit of picking up hitchhikers in the mid-eighties, especially in winter. One icy school morning, my little sister and I snuggled up in the back seat of our station wagon, while my dad pulled over to invite a stranger into the front seat. A few miles…
As a Christian mom, one of the most significant purchases I felt I could ever make for me and my child was a colorful and engaging children’s Bible. Some of my most precious times with my children when they were very young was sitting with them on my lap before bedtime and reading story after…
As a mom of three Lego-loving boys, I cannot fully describe to you how obsessed my boys are with these colorful little plastic “brick building” pieces! We’ve been buying Legos for birthdays and Christmas, and any other occasion they could talk us into for the past 10 years. In other words, don’t walk around my…
My Granny and Grandpa Jones were the sweetest couple I’ve known. I remember him singing to her the song he wrote: “I’ll love you, always, throughout life, what joy that you, should be my wife!” He woke her every morning at 6:00 with a dainty teacup filled with sweet coffee. Then they spent the early…