Doing What We Say We Will

Integrity…a characteristic that we all believe we have, but very few of us do.  Sigh. Dictionary.com defines integrity as an adherence to moral and ethical principles, along with the soundness of moral character and honesty.  Basically, I call it doing what we say we...

Why Read Scripture?

It’s amazing what you can learn from an eight-year-old! This morning as we were getting ready for school, Jake (the eight-year-old) told me he was really scared of airplanes.  Of course, flying was the topic of discussion because husband and father, Lee, had just left...

Life is Funny!

Every year around this time, I get sick.  It’s been no different this year. For five days I wrestled with a 101° fever, body aches, headaches, a horrendous cough and more.  To say I was miserable is being nice.  Just ask my husband, Lee! Thankfully, Lee and our two...

Mama

I found this poem I wrote in 2009 and I thought it was appropos to the upcoming weekend’s celebration of Mother’s Day. I love being a mom and I’m lucky enough to have my mom with me this year. Unconditional love is what mom’s are all about.  We...

Teaching Moments

I think the instruction manual was lost in the births of my two children.  They both came into this world without a handbook on good parenting. Pregnancy was difficult enough…now I’ve got to know what to do with these little ones?  WHAT?!?!?! How in the world am I...