“Your family is so interesting!” I hear these words all the time. I am not quite sure if it is the six children, the fact that my husband left his career to follow God’s direction, our family band, or a combination of it all! Somewhere along the way we just became “interesting.” I remember during my husband’s residency days he… Read More
Celebrating a Legacy
This past weekend we loaded up the family, some instruments, a few changes of clothes and headed to the big “city” of Samburg – home of Reelfoot Lake State Park. Reelfoot was formed by a series of three earthquakes that took place December 1811- February 1812. These three quakes created such a change in the lands makeup that a 15,000-acre… Read More
The Friend that Offered to Help
Today I pulled out a homemade roll recipe I used to bake all the time. As I looked at the bottom of the page, I saw the name and phone number of a sweet friend who was such a blessing when I had lots of little ones. I still remember her calling to make sure I knew her number in… Read More
She Wanted Me To Go Where?
“Turn left at the stop sign.” “Recalculating.” “Turn left in 400 feet.” “Recalculating,” said the voice housed within my mom’s Volvo that kept sending me in the wrong direction. These misleading commands wouldn’t stop! At first, my husband and I got a good chuckle out of the situation. Next, we got a little annoyed with “her” insistent commands. Didn’t she… Read More
The Cello that Sounded … Odd?
Last week my children participated in a ten-day music camp. My son, a cello player, was handed a stack of 15 songs to learn about a week before the camp began. Every day he worked hard learning to play his part. Once my son was able to play the songs, I wanted to make sure he had learned them correctly…. Read More
They All Look Just Alike!
“They all look just alike!” I used to hear it all the time. However, as my children have grown, their looks have diversified and their personalities have blossomed. I have two children that are introverts, while two are definitely extroverts. Some of my children process the world around them through their emotions, while their siblings process it through their intellect…. Read More
The Crazy Roller Coaster Ride of Enduring Faith
Faith. The Bible defines faith as the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Webster defines faith as a firm belief even in the absence of proof; to have complete confidence. I would describe faith as the area of life I wrestle with the most. Like most children in the southern part of the United States… Read More