i would ask you to pray for her. this afternoon i held her hand and read this aloud.  she closed her eyes and the words seemed to settle her soul. i kissed her forehead and told her that she could take a nap when the clock told me i really needed to go.  she looked… Continue reading “I would have lost heart, unless I had believed…”

Promise me you’ll never forget me, because if I thought you would, I’d never leave. Winnie the Pooh

i wake up to michael jackson’s thriller every single morning.  judge if you must, but you can’t help but start moving when that greets your ears.  his song turned on fifty minutes ago today.  i laid in bed not sure where i was, what day it is, and if i had already been awake or… Continue reading my morning so far.

you know the look? the one that tells you in the space of one second that the person giving it thinks you’re crazy, out of your mind, obnoxious, overwhelming, scary, and quite possibly annoying?  yes, that look.  i find that i have a tendency to provoke the look quite often. i was there in a… Continue reading the look.

someone please take my computer away from me. when exhausted, stressed, overjoyed, frustrated, delighted, or overwhelmed… i shop online. it’s very, very bad.

1.  i’ve got prettiness hanging above my bed. 2.  i received a “notice of delinquency” from the government today.  i’ve never found anything quite so humorous. 3.  i’m looking at tickets to go to idaho.  what in the world is in idaho?  friends.  and a friend getting married to another friend.  and faces and people… Continue reading the randoms of my life…

i think i shall start wearing my lipstick just like this.

i have much to be thankful for.  photos to illustrate my items of thankfulness are so much more entertaining.  so i used my handy-dandy cell phone to try and collect a few throughout my last 24 hours. 1. my rock star sister.  she’s been driving around the states for the last few weeks in a… Continue reading thankful things (with pictures)

squishy claire.  the youngest of our babes.  i tell her that she’s the prettiest and the happiest and the most kissable and everything else wonderful.  and sometimes i get lucky and she’s in the same room as me for a whole evening.  like tonight. you don’t mind a post full of her precious face, do… Continue reading the baby girl.

today was… today.  at one point i said i hated it.  another time i exclaimed that i loved it.  with head in my hands i cried and said, “it’s just hard to love Jesus when you don’t love much about your life.” (selfish, i know).  this evening my fingers played my prized possession and i… Continue reading my shirt.