“While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.” Genesis 8:22 Two of my...

My second son was born a warrior. Luke was my sword-wielding castle-loving knight-in-shining-armor. His bedroom was a fortress, and he...

Eight years ago, almost exactly, I started blogging as “BoyMom.” I told my stories of faith, family, and international adoption, and to...

After 2 1/2 years of being out of country…48 hours of international travel…two delayed flights and a missed connection…our son Felipe is...

I looked up from my plate of fish tacos, partial smile, aware of tears. “I guess it’s possible to hold two competing emotions at once.”...

If any of you follow Ann Voskamp, and you have read her newest book, Waymaker—and if you have also been reading my blog for any length of...

Apparently March is the season for travel. I will have loaded and unloaded my suitcase three times in less than a month, just as the...

Kindness seems to be trending. I’ve been seeing the word on t-shirts, and the titles of so many books. Yesterday I walked past a daycare...

I wasn’t so sure about hiking the Grand Canyon. It was my husband’s idea. His bucket list. A dream since we’d been there when the kids...

I guess this is an unofficial birthday blog post. Unofficial, since I used to write these on the regular back in the BoyMom days, but not...

We talked to Felipe last evening, in a FaceTime call, toward the end of the day. And I continued to see him, throughout the night, in my...

“Kyle can do just about anything.” I commented, and my newest neighbor nodded in agreement. She’s already received my husband’s help on a...

I’m not sure which was the bigger surprise—that my mom knew about the Enneagram, or that she self-identified as a One. One being the...

Every once in a while I like me some country music. Maybe it’s my country girl roots, and the barn dances Uncle Lonney used to host when...

“We have all the time we need.” I’ve heard Michelle say this, countless times, before every Bible lesson. And I’ve taken her words to...

The day was perfect. And yes, we do tend to think every day is close to perfect, here at the lake. But Sunday exceeded all expectations....

(Note: My husband approved the following post...) A couple of nights ago Kyle casually mentioned he’d taken a “life events stress...

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who...

Of course, we’ve known for a while. Mom and Dad, once again keeping secrets, until it becomes official. Which it did become, this week on...

I write today for awareness, and also for prayer. In the country of Colombia “demonstrations over a proposed tax overhaul tied to the...