As I walked through the aisles of Target one recent afternoon I passed a young couple holding hands and looking intently at what was before them on the shelf. The words “extra pleasure” and “ribbed” caught my eye right around the time I heard the young man say, “They’re expensive.”  He then gently but firmly lead his girlfriend away.

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"The fact is, a work of literature should give us ourselves idealized and in a dream, all we wished to be but could not be, all we hoped for but missed. True literature rounds out our lives, gives us consolations for our failures, rebuke for our vices, suggestions for our ambition, hope, and love, and appreciation. To do that it should have truth, nobility, and beauty in a high degree...

My boys get all amped up at bedtime.  While I fancy myself a wordsmith, there are NO WORDS TO DESCRIBE THE CHAOS THAT ENSUES EACH AND EVERY NIGHT!  No matter how I tweak their bedtime routine, what time we move upstairs, what combination of children I put together in a room, what books we read or songs we sing, it always spirals into tears and fears and pleas for MORE!  And I am wiped out.  

‎"When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out." - Erma Bombeck

We are in the process of searching for a new home... more specifically a property where the boys can go when they need to be "wild and unruly."  We've long dreamt of a place where our boys can be ...

We moved last week.  Out of our spacious home and into a little condo down the hill.  We're enjoying our simplified existence with fewer things to put away, more cuddle time and laughter on the couch, and jaunts to the community pool for a family plunge.   

We didn't have much to bring, actually.  We sold a lot of our furniture to the newlyweds moving into our family hous...

Yesterday I posted about reading Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire's children's book GEORGE WASHINGTON with my eight year old son, Caleb.  This morning he read their beautifully illustrated ABRAHAM LINCOLN aloud to me.  In the final pages Caleb put the book down multiple times to ask me about Slavery, Civil War, and why God didn't te...

I recently heard someone say, "Don't think outside of the box... live like there is no box!"  Or something in that price range.  When you see a quote like that on Facebook you immediately want to hit the "like" button, but after you do what really changes about the way you live your life?  What changes about the way I live mine?

This week my family made...

When I speak to women's groups I am usually asked by the lady orchestrating the event, "Would you like us to set up a book table for you?"  My answer to the question has always been "no". And the reason is simple:  I haven't published any books.  

I've been a little busy here on the home-front wiping bottoms, doing dishes, training children, reading books...

Next to the wonder of seeing my Savior will be, I think, the wonder that I made so little use of the power of prayer. ~ D.L. Moody