This Reminds Me

We’ve had a chaotic couple of weeks with basketball, choir, Latin competitions, trading germs, etc.   Today’s been the first day in many that I haven’t sounded like a emphysemic sailor hacking up a lung.   When I feel cruddy, everything either wears me out (makes me sad) or riles me up (makes me mad.)  I [...]

Baptists aren’t really “Lenten people” but our church family is preparing our hearts for Easter with this series.  Finding the 28 minutes a day for listening was challenging me.  So…..I’ve given up K-Love during drive time until I’ve finished hearing the New Testament.
Julia is sitting next to me right this minute, practicing the songs her [...]

We’ve had a tough couple of weeks here.  Judy’s husband of 44 years – my brother-in-law Carl – died early Tuesday morning.   I was a nine-year-old bridesmaid in their wedding (to which my dad was late, btw, because he was watching “Divorce Court.”)

David and me with Carl in 1965.
Judy and Sarah have been blanketed with [...]

We moved to San Antonio from Houston on January 2, 2000 and closed on our house January 12 – an anniversary dear to Keith as he quickly tired of sharing a small motel room with me and daughters ages 8, 6 and 4.    The girls still delight in reminding me the motel had no kids’ [...]

What else is there to say?  Or sing?

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That’s alto Rachel on the far left, harmonizing in the gray jacket – joining as an alumni, since she was graduated last year.
Merry Christmas!

Until I went digital in 2003 – I was always a “Nikon gal,” going back to my 1979  Nikon EM (”The plastic Nikon,” as my friend and professional photographer Steve sniffed).  My digital cameras have all been Kodak models, largely because -  I confess – I like the software.
But my latest Kodak  – a 2005 [...]

The girls and I are fairly tired and definitely sweaty after a full day of filling, carting, stacking and banding Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child boxes.  We’re not sure how many boxes we have just yet.  I’m never even  sure what we have to pack until I start dragging it out and slicing open boxes.  [...]

After professing her faith to the congregation last week, Julia was baptized today – and we’ve been celebrating!

Dad’s waffles for breakfast, and an angelic James Avery bible bookmark from Sarah and Joe.  We read a bible story or two every night.   Question after a recent recounting of Elisha and angels:  “Are angels naked?”

Her changing [...]

Before each of our kids were born, we prayed that one day they would accept Jesus as their personal savior.  We didn’t pray for them to join a church – though I hope they’re always members of one.  We didn’t pray for them to tack “WWJD” posters in their rooms – though if they to [...]

We celebrated our third Sister’s Day today, remembering when Julia came home from Russia and became not only our daughter, but also the sister of Rachel, Lois and Hannah.  That sibling relationship and subsequent attachment has been every bit as important as her relationship and subsequent attachment to Keith and me.  We were a “unit” [...]