It’s interesting the differences between where we see our life going and where it actually goes. Slippery little sucker, isn’t it? My pride hates to admit that I’m beginning to like my job. (In fact, I even just deleted that line several times…I’ve been so committed to hating it that I don’t want to admit… Continue reading What do I know?

Easter. Even as a Christian, the first thing that comes into my head when I think Easter is little yellow and pink and green plastic eggs, candy, chocolate bunnies, and hideous white floofy dresses with wide-brimmed hats, the kind mom used to make me wear on that blessed Sunday each year.  (Ugh, I was such… Continue reading You're the One who started all of this…

I found these two twitter-paited (and yes, I did google that term to find out how to spell it) birds playing this morning while walking out to my car. I cannot tell you how much the sunshine, warm weather, and blue skies have made everything better. “Jesus told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is… Continue reading twitter-paited

Greetings, happy uneventful Tuesday to you from the land of file cabinets, glittering office supplies, reems of paper, and lunch breaks! *bow* I come bearing gifts of great wisdom and insight….kind of…. In light of my recent posts, I have stumbled across a devotional that really resonates with me. It talks about the story of… Continue reading row, row, row your boat…

I adored reading as a child. When I was old enough to walk and climb around, mom would often find me in my bedroom up on my rocking chair, flipping through books and looking at pictures before I could even read. I even remember when Dad started reading chapter books (the Boxcar Children, to be… Continue reading Where the Wild Things Are

It never ceases to amaze me how long it takes to learn something from God that I’ve heard a million times. Like molasses drooling out of a jar, I tend to want to hold onto my own ideas as long as I can until I finally realize they don’t hold water. A common theme for… Continue reading my own backyard

In my hours and hours of watching Grey’s Anatomy while I was trying to get well, trying to absorb the idea of doctors and medicine and healing to speed up the process, one scene jumped out at me. Not only because it made me laugh out loud, but because I really related with the character.… Continue reading Because it's what Jesus would FREAKIN' do!

Wow. Was I SICK. I really didn’t think I’d live. I am not exaggerating either. I had a temperature up to 104 degrees, and held a fever from Friday night to Monday morning. That’s not normal! But thank God for my parents, who whisked me home from my retreat, bought us Jello and OJ and… Continue reading I made it. I'm alive.

So the yard sale was a hit!!! Everything came together beautifully and we had a lot of fun. Friday night, my dear friend Rachel who loves to bake, graciously hosted a baking FRENZY at her house for the yard sale. Me, her, and Mandy made chocolate chip cookies, snickerdoodles, cranberry white chocolate biscotti, (then we… Continue reading *snap*

I hear people say, Bloom where you’re planted! all the time. Well, I’m planted in the midwest, and don’t seem to be going anywhere anytime soon. And there’s something very good I think that is in the process of blooming. Over the past six months or so, Cody’s parents and our friends Carolyn and Mick… Continue reading my corner of the world