My husband is the romantic in this house.  He has always been the romantic in our relationship, which dates back to me being 15 and him...

Last Wednesday it was about 7:10 PM and I was laying on the couch feeling pretty pleased with myself.  After all,  I'd gotten an email t...

It's the first day of school here in tiny town.  You can't see me, but if you could:  I can't stop smiling.  And clapping and ju...

So.  Last week I wrote this post on Words.  And then on Friday I got a call from my First Grade son's teacher about his choice of word...

I hate playing catch up.  Do you?  It requires so much work.  Whether it's trying to catch up with people I've lost contact with (wh...

It feels like yesterday...that she was so tiny. In two days she'll be 10 months old.  Last night, she started crawling on all fours...

I guarantee you, that this is in fact not how I meticulously arranged my nativity set. I have a certain eight year old to thank for th...

Lately I been thinking that enjoying life means celebrating the crazy.  This is not a new concept for me.  It's a big chunk of the rea...

Last night, during midweek church, Noah doodled this picture.   It's his interpretation of the first day of school...five years from ...

As I write this, my boys are out in the front yard selling produce from their garden. "Selling" involves walking up and down th...

Guess who Lucy and I got to have coffee with. Seriously, just take a guess. Click here to meet Lucy's future husband.  There's...

A week or so ago I tried to share some amazing pics with you...but my computer idiotness defeated me.  But today I triumphed.  Can I get a ...

Part of the reason I blog is so that I can look back and actually remember some of the seemingly insignificant things. Over the past two ye...

How my four year old eats a Grapefruit...unsupervised. Take a wild guess who's not allowed in the fridge without supervision. If only t...

I love Fridays. I do I do I do. I like the counting down of hours until BAM I'm done with all of my obligations (except the family one...

The Bald Buddies When I think back to when I was a kid, there are certain events that just stick. Occasions that I'll always remember. ...

I find myself wandering around this morning trying to figure out where to start on the "to-do" list that I seem to keep making lon...

The Parsonage family took a little vacation. Finally. We headed North to Minnesota... the cities ...as we like to call it. We called th...

It is finally nice outside here. Really nice. Finally! I'm actually able to remember why on earth I choose to live in this part of the ...

It's been awhile since I posted my beloved bullet point lists...and I thought to myself, self, I'm sure your readers are longing for...