Fun Friday Favorites: Birthday celebrating, spring break, and being brave

Well. My apologies for not writing a blog post last week. I've got two words...spring break. Yes. Last week the boys had a week off from school and we celebrated hard. We started out their spring break by celebrating Nate's 13th birthday on Friday, March 9th. Actually, we celebrated on birthday eve (Thursday night, the ...

It’s been a little quiet on here

Hello? Hello? Is anyone there? Ah, yes. Thankfully, you are, dear friend. You, my friend, are SOLID. We are SOLID FRIENDS. No fair weather friendship here. Thank you. It's been quiet on here, but I can explain. First. Let me begin by sharing what we've been up to lately. Last Friday, I helped with Maxim's party at school. ...

Some days it is hard to adult, but we must have faith

Fergie, you are all wrong. Big girls do cry. Especially when they have to grow up and clean their closet. (That reference would be to one of my favorite songs Fergie sang back in the summer of 2007. You are welcome for useless musical trivia.) Yesterday, I met my friend Katie for Bible study in the ...

Weekend Recap: Praying for miracles. Big or small.

Well, this weekend was rather interesting.  My Saturday did not go as I had planned.  Not that I had grand plans of how to spend the afternoon, but going to the Emergency Room was NOT even on my radar.  But that's where I ended up. Seriously.  Am I the only one who does stupid little things ...

Weekend Recap: Deep thoughts (and not by Jack Handy)

Well.  I could go into a whole therapy session right about now, but I'll spare you.  Maybe.  Long story short, last week was just one of those weeks.  It was difficult, frustrating, heart tugging...all of that fun stuff. When you set out to become a writer and a blogger the skies do not part and a ...

The ugly cry

Why yes, last night, I was all about doing the ugly cry.  A cry with sniffles, tears, a crumpled up face that looked nothing short of hideous and Kenny Loggins "Meet Me Half Way" playing in the background. Yesterday was a tough day for me.  After I picked the boys up from school, we ran an errand before basketball ...

Back to life. Back to reality.

Test.  Test.  Hello.  Can you hear me?  Is this microphone on? Just making sure this computer is still working. Because I haven't been blogging in like...FOREVER.  My sincere apologies dear friends.  In all honesty, last week, I was just trying to live up every moment of summer before school started last Wednesday. What does that look like, you ...

I felt like Noah, only the water wasn’t as high…

My goodness, it has been one crazy week.  You may or may not know, therefore, I will share...our basement flooded.  And, because I make NO story short.  I will tell you how it happened.  (And I will spare no details.) Last Friday, our sump pump started making this weird knocking noise.  Loud noise.  As in, I woke ...