In anticipation of Mother’s Day I was sent a video, along with other pastors in our denomination, to show in our church as a way of celebrating the moms among us. Sadly, this bit of production is a modern version of the same old stereotypes women have been living with since the advent of the [...]

 
I recently listened to a podcast on the subject of public parenting. It discussed what to do when you see a parent losing it with a kid in a public space, and it reminded of something I saw many years ago that still sticks in my head as some of the worse parenting I’ve ever [...]

Just one day after my last entry, at just after 6:00 a.m., my Dad breathed his last. He was with my brother Jeff and my Uncle Ray when he died, as they had been staying up with him through the night. He had been so restless and was struggling against his pain and [...]

Junia will be a week old tomorrow (Wednesday) afternoon, though it seems like only a couple of days.  A couple of very, very long days.
We arrived in Spokane late last evening at my Dad’s home, where he is under hospice care.  I was a bit overcome when I carried Junia into the house and saw [...]

Here I sit in the darkness of my dining room at about 5:00 in the morning. If you know me, you know that sleeping is not usually a problem for me. In fact, I usually have more trouble with the getting up part. But as with many women near the end of their pregnancies, [...]

Camping is one of the joys of summertime for our family. It’s about the least expensive way I know of to have the most amount of fun while making lots of great memories together. Granted, it’s no European vacation, but we always have a good time and this year was no exception.
We set [...]

…girl!
Today we had our ultrasound at 19 weeks pregnant and received the exciting news that our baby is a girl! She is very healthy and active. They looked at various things, checked her heart, brain, kidneys, stomach, bladder, and took a bunch of her measurements. They also looked at the placenta, [...]

I’ve been MIA from my blog since making the big announcement and I thought it was time to check in with an update and some explanation of what I’ve been up to.
Pregnancy!
That bit about feeling great and not being nauseated didn’t exactly last. Within a short time I was experiencing all the normal stuff – [...]

So it’s public now… we’re gonna have a baby!
We found out the good news the night before I was leaving for the weekend for Convergence (which I still need to post on!), so we didn’t really have time to absorb our new reality before having a couple of days apart.  Truthfully, I think we’ll be [...]

The sky is a clear, winter blue and the morning sunshine is streaming onto the frosty landscape, beginning to thaw the frozen ground. We were up before the sun this morning - not really my favorite thing to do. But since we’re hosting my husband’s family for the Thanksgiving meal today, we willingly [...]