How do you picture the day of a best-selling author? Sitting in a beautiful setting, sipping tea, reading classic literature, and penning prose? Or perhaps having time to sit and ponder major plot complexities. Or maybe ... just breathing life to words on this page this way. In real life this was my day: 7:45 a.m. woke up and realized I slept in and my three little … [Read more...]
A Cheap Date
Not long after my husband and I moved to Wichita, we decided it would be fun to explore the city's coffee shops. Living for most of our marriage in small towns, our options for places to eat or get a cup of great coffee were very limited. Still, through our forty years of marriage we've tried to always make time for dates with each other. But since Ken started his new business, our budget has … [Read more...]
Books: Snapshots of Our Lives
John and I are in the process of adopting four girls, ages 14, 12, 12, and 10, from the foster care system. They are beautiful, smart, and funny. We've had two day visits and one weekend visit with them, and John and I are just scratching the surface at discovering who these amazing young women are. At the same time John and I are trying to share our lives, our likes, our values, . . . and our … [Read more...]
I Love Christmas Traditions!
There's something about the Christmas season that can make it hard to breath. Life seems to speed up thanks to all the extra Christmas parties, rehearsals, pageants, shows, recitals, ack! But I long for Christmas to be a time to slow down and focus on what it really means. A small season to focus on the greatest gift of all and the many gifts He's given us. For my family, that takes the shape … [Read more...]
Diagnoses, Driving, and Dads
You might remember that I was in Atlanta with my dad when I posted a month ago, and I'm back here again. I've been with Dad and Esta for about week now, staying with them as Dad's been struggling with continuing nausea and sickness following a stroke and subsequent gallbladder surgery. Dad had an upper GI last Thursday, and the doctor called us Friday saying the results were in but that she … [Read more...]
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