After having a baby, the song “Silent Night” began to take on a new meaning. It is a lovely and moving Christmas hymn, of course, but I don’t understand what was “silent” about the birth of Jesus. After experiencing natural childbirth, I don’t imagine Mary’s birth experience was a quiet one. Then, there is a newborn…
During my lunch break I usually check-out the latest on Facebook and Yahoo news. A few days before Easter I came across a Facebook post from one of my college buddies. His post mentioned a blog from a Christian website (http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/parenting-means-wrestling-demons). Parenting articles always draw my attention, so I followed the link. This article spoke to…
The Halloween season is always lots of fun and central to that fun is candy! This year, it seems like our candy jar was full from October 1 – November 1. Yes, we have a candy jar courtesy of Bryan, and I think it’s his way of slowly torturing me. Anyway, at the beginning of…
When most everyone is enjoying the snow and bone-chiling weather that winter brings, Texans typically enjoying balmy weather. December tends to bring our coldest temperatures; however, Bryan always says that January is colder. November/December was exceptionally cold in 2013. While this was annoying, it did provide the opportunity to bring out the out cold weather…
I thought that this would be the year that I managed to get family pictures taken BEFORE Christmas so I could include them with family Christmas cards. That means booking a photographer in October and getting them early. No such luck, again. BUT – I did take several cute “Fall themed” pictures of the girls…
All my friends know that I love Halloween! Really, what’s not to like? Candy, dressing up, scary movies the week before Halloween, and having fun walking around the neighborhood with friends (did I say candy???) – it’s all there! I tried to find Rachel’s first costume with no luck 🙁 It was an adorable little…
It was tough to think of a song title for this one, because the topic kind of rambles. I thought of Dancing Queen, Tiny Dancer but that was too specific. In terms of a non-song title, it could also be titled – the tale of the purple leotard/summer adventures 2013. This summer has come and…