Cast Your Crowns

Cast Your Crowns

Yesterday, M&M announced, “I voted for orange!” My little guy makes a lot of choices every day, not just about his favorite color—things like whether he’ll stay in his bed all night, between obediently eating his dinner or crying over the chicken pot pie, whether...
Pretty as a Picture

Pretty as a Picture

Carrot cake. Heavenly cake. Key lime pie. Chocolate bread pudding. Apple crisp bread pudding…In our family, we each get a personal birthday dessert, and no one else is allowed to choose it. Think Tank wavers between cookies and cakes, still searching for the perfect...
Baby Talk

Baby Talk

I love the breakfast table. It has a totally different feel than the same room, nine hours later. At that time of day, I have the energy to keep M&M from crawling across the table to snatch Brown Sugar’s sausage. My coffee’s still hot, the cup’s still full....
Dotting Every “i”

Dotting Every “i”

My little people know all about my penchant for pointing out important things like missing commas, double negatives, redundancy, and the oft-misused “I/me” in both the written and spoken word. I’m glad to crawl out from under my rock to discuss all things book and...
Jesus Took the Wheel

Jesus Took the Wheel

Do you think it’s possible to take both your common sense and your navigation program along for the ride? Sometimes, I wonder. Saturday night we packed up everybody and then some for a family movie night in the park. We had to take two cars because of the extra little...
The Rock in a Hard Place

The Rock in a Hard Place

The little people and I have been studying Numbers, and there’s been a lot of head shaking going on. We just want to reach back and take our spiritual brothers and sisters by the hand and—in the words of M&M—exclaim, “Seriously?” Over and over they doubt the God...

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