Scenes From Our Week – Week 3
There was no school on Wednesday so the kids and I spent the day shopping. The kids needed clothes for this upcoming cold weather. We needed birthday gifts. We needed pumpkins. We needed groceries. So we embarked on an all day adventure. We went to the outlet mall, the regular mall, Earl May, and Target. After…
Read More Scenes From Our Week – Week 2
As part of my 40 Before 40 Challenge, I wanted to capture our life in pictures at least once a week. Here is what I captured this week. Patrick has become attached to his skateboard lately. We decided to take him to a skate park on Sunday and let him try it out. A…
Read More 10 Day Give Day 2 – Lima Leaf Day
Day 2 of the 10 Day Give was Sunday. Every year, the first Sunday in October you can find me and my family giving of ourselves all day long. My parents are the caretakers of a country church that was part of many generations of my mom’s family. The church is located in a beautiful…
Read More It Finally Happened
So, it finally happened. After living in our house for nearly 8 years. After living right next to a corn/bean field, depending on the year. After doing several construction projects where openings were made in the house. A. Mouse. Got. In. Sunday, I decided to do some laundry. Thank goodness I decided to do laundry…
Read More A COURAGEOUS Invitation
As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Joshua 24:15 I do solemnly resolve before God to take full responsibility for myself, my wife, and my children. I WILL love them, protect them, serve them, and teach them the Word of God as the spiritual leader of my home. I WILL learn…
Read More Fall Means Football….and Soccer
The boys started their soccer season this past weekend with a win, 5-0. They are playing on a co-ed 6-8th grade team. Even though Bennett is only a 5th grader, he is playing on the team as well. They did an awesome job and it was fun to watch them. I was amazed at their…
Read More 55 Years of Blessings
This weekend we celebrated my parent’s 55th Wedding Anniversary. We traveled to the home I grew up in on Friday night and spent the weekend. I ended up sitting up late with my parents Friday night talking and hearing stories that I had never heard before. Then on Saturday my 2 sisters and their children…
Read More Things I Love – Bennett
Things I Love… This is my feature where I get to share something that I just love. Since you are my friends, I like sharing things I love with others. It could be anything from a new product, food, recipe, song, image, to a person and everything in between. This will be something I am…
Read More Chore Expectations
I am always amazed when talking with other moms that there are many who don’t expect their children to do chores. Our children have regularly been doing chores for a couple years now. I remember summers when I would be home along all day starting in 6th grade – high school. I could sleep in…
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