General Blog Posts
While new experiences may be scary, they offer opportunities for growth. Stepping out in faith can bring blessings through the stretching. Life in the fast lane stretches me. The speed limit was 70, but vehicles of all sizes zoomed past me on the multi-lane interstate as if I were in the slower lane. Perhaps I should…
“One summer day two feisty young boys decided to play a prank on their sleeping grandfather. They crept into his bedroom and smeared Limburger cheese on his moustache. A short while later he awoke declaring, ‘This room smells!’ He went into the kitchen where Grandma was baking chocolate chip cookies. But he couldn’t smell the…
It’s the new school year; and while fresh school supplies and new shoes and clothes come to mind, so do all the teachers who influence our children. Their marks—good and bad—are imprinted on our souls. Not finding my glue or fearing being left behind brought me to tears too often in first grade to get…
I am the person hurt most when I do not say no. Do you know the feeling when someone asks you to do something and your mind starts racing because you know your schedule is already full, but you don’t want to hurt the person who seems so needy? The pressure is on because you…
I have a problem about sticking to schedules. It is not that I don’t stick to schedules. It is that I don’t like my schedules messed up. Maybe I am too much of a stickler to sticking to the schedule! Changed schedules throw me into an unbalanced, loss of control feeling. (Go ahead and laugh.…
I warm up to technology at a slow pace, or maybe I am just cautious. I love my computers and my Fitbit. That’s my technology. Enter new technology, and I am nervous. Do you relate? Now, other family members love their Kindle, Smartphones, tablets, and various games, but I just like the good old predictable…
Haste makes waste. How that little saying came true recently was a hard pill to swallow. I got something on my shorts shortly after starting the last load of laundry. I wanted to get those shorts into the laundry pronto so I raced through changing and plunged my shorts deep into the sudsy washer machine.…
One day in June I found myself unexpectedly alone in the house. I went about my work, but it was SO quiet. We have five kids and four pets. We are always busy, running here or there, tackling this or that. Somebody is on the phone. Somebody is listening to music or to Adventures in…
Ah, chocolate. It is so delicious. Just thinking about it makes you want some right now, doesn’t it? My youngest was reading C.S. Lewis’ The Horse and His Boy when truffles came up. I admitted to making truffles once when she was less than a month old. For some reason, I was upset so while…
Whenever I tackle a task, it seems I go overboard. This was no exception. I thought that picking strawberries would be a fun activity for me and my daughters. Turns out only one thought it would be fun. Our neighbor joined me and Emily, and we set out anticipating all the fine dishes we could…