Last week I was on a high.  We just finished a wonderfully successful Retreat and then headed out on a family trip for spring break that was...

In polishing up another post, I just stumbled across this old post on my blog.  Tears came to my eyes as I read about the cute things the k...

My brother Jonah and his wife Aja are uniquely wonderful. They don't buy stuff. They trade stuff and grow stuff and do without a lot o...

So we thought we'd get all the way to Jonah and Aja's house in Washington state on Monday but we got a bit of a late start. By the...

Washington and Oregon are big states.  We've been driving through them for a long time.  But they sure are beautiful!  We started yester...

Power of Moms is a TON of work. But last weekend helped me see that all this work really IS worthwhile. About 8 years ago, as I was chatti...

I've had quite a few people ask if I'll repost my stuff from a while back about Easter traditions.  So here goes! I think Easter i...

Growing up, we had this wall of old photos right inside the front door of our home.  There were photos of our parents as little children, ph...

Last week we got a couple days of springtime and decided to make the most of it.  It's pretty weird looking back at these photos of  8 d...

It's been snowing and sleeting for 3 days without stopping.  It's April.  Come ON!  Hopefully this'll stop before the Retreat ne...