I’ve realize how ungrateful I am. I take nearly everything for granted all the time, and focus on the few things that I wish could be different, instead of how blessed I am.
Today I’m thankful for:
1. Being healthy enough to go running and a safe neighborhood to run in.
2. My Shark that makes [...]

I had a good weekend.  Stayed up until 2 am on Friday night, reading Ree Drummond (aka The Pioneer Woman) ’s “Black Heels to Tractor Wheels”.  Made my birds’ nests.  Watched “Disney’s Beauty and The Beast” and “Dan in Real Life” (which is one of those movies that I can watch hundreds of times and [...]

This week I’ve felt a bit down.  Nothing major or tragic going on, just an over-all feeling of discouragement.  When I have times like this, I tend to get so caught up in my own “junk” that I  forget about the big-picture stuff:

Every dumb mistake,
every hurt that we’ve cause another person,
every selfish act,
every regret…
… was paid [...]

As I was making birthday cupcakes for my co-worker this morning, I opened my carton of eggs to find this sweet reminder:

“This is the Day which the Lord has made; Let us rejoice and be glad in it.”
- – Psalm 118:24

Happy 2011!

I was trying to make some resolutions today for the coming year, and everything I came up with seemed silly.  Then I was reading my journal from last year and I was surprised to see that my resolution for 2010 was to try to live out 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18: Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything [...]

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!”  - – 2 Corinthians 5:17
I’m so happy because of our wonderful family & friends, our church, my beloved Funnel, and most of all for God’s great Christmas gift to us – his ultimate sacrifice resulting in [...]

I’m thankful.   I have food that goes bad in refrigerator before I even have a chance to eat it.  I have more than one outfit and more than one pair of shoes.  I can go to a doctor and get medicine or treatment or surgery if I ever need to.  I have not one, [...]

I know a lot of you prayed for my cousin Lauren and her family when her 3-year old son, Corey, passed away last year.   I wanted to share with you a picture of her sweet twins, Courtney and Jordan, that I had the priviledge of meeting this past weekend:

On my mind again today: how crazy it [...]

Sad news: my cousin Lauren’s 3-year-old son, Corey Cline passed away over the weekend after a freak accident. He was coming home from church with his 7-year-old-brother and older cousin, and their car went off the road and rolled over.  Everyone made it out okay, but while they were waiting for help, another car lost control [...]

((taken on an unusually warm day the other week, after the snow had melted.))
We’re on to month two of 2009, and I am still feeling good about this year.  I hope saying that doesn’t jinx me, but I really feel hopeful about what’s to come.  Like we are (or maybe I am) am on the brink of something [...]