My daughter, Lydia, has journaling assignments for Language this year. Every few days she will have to write an entry in her journal. Sometimes she’ll have an assigned title and other times she can write what she wants. She often writes about something that happened recently in her life. Yesterday, she had the choice of… Continue reading Faith Like a Child: 10 Reasons to Love God
Photo by Jonathan Fitch I have been married for 13.5 years. I remember when that seemed like a long time, but now that it’s here, I realize how quickly time goes. I remember back when my husband and I were dating. We were young and feeling “so in love”, wanting to be with each other… Continue reading Random Thoughts on Marriage and Wedding Vows
When we were going through this whole process, my head was spinning. I imagined the worst.
Since we’ve had kids, we’ve had to make a lot of decisions. Who should be their doctor, teacher, babysitter. What books they should read and movies they can see. What food to let them eat or make them eat. How and where to celebrate holidays. One of those holidays is Halloween.
A month or two before our 13th anniversary, Jonathan was putting together a secret plan for us to get away. He was so excited about it he even made me a chain to cut for each day until we left. He wouldn’t tell me anything about it until the week before, he told me we… Continue reading Red Wing
Today is my husband’s 33rd birthday. I am so blessed to have him in my life. To celebrate his life today I thought I would list a few of the many reasons why I love him.
Everybody is posting what they are thankful for these days. So I thought I would blog about something I am thankful for. If you think it’s flowers, you’re wrong. What I’m thankful for is my husband. One of the things he has always been good at is getting me flowers.
Today is the day of my husband’s birth. I feel so blessed to have such a wonderful husband, so I thought I would just share a few of the ways that he is a blessing to me. 1. He loves me even when I’m absolutely unloveable. 2. He is extremely patient. 3. He is a… Continue reading Blessed
Jonathan and I were BLESSED to receive a Christmas gift of a vacation to Florida. We were very excited. We have had weekend vacations together, but nothing like this. We had seven days, no kids and no expectations. We deliberately made no real plans. We just wanted this to be a REAL vacation and relax.… Continue reading Vacation
Jonathan and I are celebrating our tenth wedding anniversary today. In some ways we can’t believe it has gone so fast. In other ways we can’t remember when we weren’t together. So much can happen in ten years and I thought it would be fun to write a glimpse of what that looks like. In… Continue reading Ten Years!
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