Thoughts

I wrote this almost a year ago now and I feel like now is the appropriate time to publish this little diddy. I find it amazing how reading this over again reminds me of how incredibly important this last year has been in my families life. I will never be done learning and I know […]

You may find this hard to imagine but I did not thrive in high school. I know – total shocker. I could barely stand it to be honest. If I wasn’t so afraid of “getting in trouble” with any authority figure, I would have skipped it all together. The kids were nasty and poorly behaved,

I am going to start off with an admission: over this past year, I have been terrified to write. I’ve felt the calling to get back to sharing my uniquely humorous and bizarre experiences in my walk with the Lord, but I flat out said a big old fat “NO WAY!” Looking back, I should

Written by our very own fantastic teacher- Miss Mackie Announcing that you may or may not have a life-threatening disease is probably not the best way to tell your co-workers that you are home from camp. But, if emergency, the specialist and my emerge nurse mom’s combined suspicion is cancer, the immediate reaction is to

I am sitting here in my quiet living room at 11:58pm ( or 23:58 as it is now known on my phone, thanks to a little boy who seems to always finds the way to change my clock to hundred hour). I am awake, I should be sleeping. I am exhausted but not tired. Is

  Late at night before I close my eyes and go to sleep I really enjoy a good Instagram and Pintrest Fest! I scroll through the photos of the day and it is like bad candy for my eyes- almost the equivalent to sneakily eating a whole bag of chips in bed with out the

Today I managed to get both of my kids and myself dressed and off to the health unit for our sons first round of vaccinations. My visit this time greatly contrasted that of my first visit with my first born. For starters, I was early today (remarkable), I knew where to park and where to

Hello friends, I am speaking to you today from the perspective of a women who is 40 +1 weeks pregnant. I would like to begin by saying my pregnancy has been a dream, with all the usual suspects. Swollen feet and hands, morning sickness, wow! Some mighty fierce heart burn, general pain in the usual

Well, it is the eve of the show. I am glued to my laptop and cell phone this afternoon during nap time. I am writing lists and getting things done with help from my grande caramel machiatto. I have been asked by at least a fist full of people today how I am feeling and

I remember my first job very clearly. In our family growing up, one of the rights of passage was getting your first job. Specifically, getting your first job at McDonalds. I acquired many skills there and learnt a great deal of my life lessons in the two years I served behind that order counter. Things

Love is a tricky emotion. We throw the word “Love” around these days like it was toilet paper, easy to come by and can be purchased in bulk at Costco. New drink at Starbucks; “I love it”, new song on the radio; “I love that song”. Many of us know or have experienced love and

Proverbs 31:10-31 (NIV) Epilogue: The Wife of Noble Character 10 A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. 11Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value.12 She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life. 13 She selects wool and flax

Patients, perseverance and procrastination. These are the three “P’s” of my life currently. It is costume time, the spring show is four weeks away (May 28th), and registration begins on May 30th (two days before June. I have been telling people June, alas I was wrong). With all these things on the go there is

It is fascinating to me how much we believe we are in control. It is an extremely easy illusion to fall captive to. We schedule our days, weeks, and years as efficiently as possible trying to optimize our experiences each season. Even as our babies grow into toddlers and then to kids there are certain

If you look up the definition of fellowship on the internet you will find the description as follows: “a friendly relationship among people”. I like this definition because it is clean, neat and tidy. However, I can not help but feel like the fellowship that the search engine is talking about may not be the

If you are anything like me you may feel, at times, like you can’t believe the things/lives God has in trusted you with. Our pastor spoke briefly this week about the story when Isaiah saw God and how mortified he was when the splendor of the King of Kings compared to his own dark and