Giving thanks is hard sometimes.  You may be entering a stressful, sad holiday season when everyone else around you seems to have it all together, and to have it all.  Period.  This may be the first year you face the holidays without a dear loved one.  We’ve been there.  God bless you as you dig [...]

Church sponsored community breakfast, day trip with the family, college football on a beautiful fall day, and bunko with the girls.  What a day!  There is much to be thankful for, so let’s get to counting! 420.  Classic board books read over and over (and over!)  What are your favorites? 421.  Ditching the menu plan [...]

Well, Halloween was all fun and games (it really is fun in a Tiny Town… we should talk about that sometime!) until The Vomit appeared at midnight (for the 6yo and the hubby), and lasted throughout the night.  And Wednesday night.  And the baby is still working on that last molar.  Who needs sleep, right?  [...]

Simply counting this week. 395.  Watercolors painted in the sky. 396.  A message:  Grace precedes everything.  Stewardship is our response to grace. 397.  4yo lying still, resting quietly through the sick. 398.  His first “beaters.” 399.  Six hour stomach bug (it could have been 12 or 24, right?) 400.  Blankets piled high on the bed. [...]