Are there times when you meet someone and you know within a relatively short period of time that you can be friends with this person, that you will probably laugh at the same jokes, read the same books, and, in time, share fairly intimate details of your deepest,...

Today we went to a growing project harvest (where a field is harvested and donated toward ending hunger in developing countries) and Marcel and I were once again reminded that we are raising city girls. Our daughters have turned into those girls that us "country...

If you're playing "would you rather" with your four-year-old child, and she asks you a question like "would you rather lick peanut butter off a dog's toe or sleep in a bathtub full of water for the rest of your life", don't follow it up with a question like "would you...

When my mom was in Holland recently, she bought her grandchildren all soccer shirts. Don't they look great? (The kids AND the shirts!)

A few days ago, my sister-in-law ap and I had a brief conversation about writing and getting published (unfortunately, all our conversations were brief on this visit). She was commenting on my recent publishing successes and said “I guess I just don’t have as much...

Just now, four-year-old Maddie, who was lying on the floor at my feet, looked up at me and asked "Mom, do you think the Lord (for some cute and comical reason, she always refers to God as 'the Lord') is doing a good job of looking after my brother and my grandpa?"I...

This morning, the alarm woke me at 6:20 a.m. I hit the snooze button. Nine minutes later, I hit it again. What I really wanted to do was throw it against the wall. After two and a half weeks of sleeping late, being lazy, and going to bed late, it’s not easy rolling...

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The bathroom is done. Yay! For a small room, it ended up consuming way more of my time then it should have. But at last, it is done. And it doesn't look half-bad, now that all's said and done - despite my lament about harvest gold walls. (It's more yellow than this...

In case you wondered why I dropped out of sight for awhile - no there's nothing major to report. Nothing terrible happened since my last post. Mostly, it's just because my writing brain was not engaged. I kept telling myself I wasn't going to post again until I could...