Three minutes until midnight; my house is quiet, but contentedly full.  It has snowed — real snow, with inches more due to come while we sleep tonight — and I have my hands full.  It’s funny because wouldn’t most people use that phrase in a negative way?  And yet I don’t mean it that way; [...]

I don’t think I’ve ever told you this before, but Thursday nights are my favorite part of the week.  It’s actually kind of funny how that came to be… back when I was doing Starlite, we did our elementary school programs on Mondays, our high school programs on Tuesdays and our middle school programs on [...]

After safely depositing Trey and his stitched foot at his apartment on Monday night, I raced home to meet my college girls who were coming over for our weekly Life Group. A couple of them were already in my driveway by the time I got home, so after getting us inside, I got a pan [...]

About two weeks ago I decided to start teaching Avi how to recognize letters of the alphabet, so I bought some pink glitter letters (obviously) and began going through the letters with her.  Because she hasn’t worked on this before now, it’s been slow — she can’t actually recognize any letters yet. Last night, as [...]

As I was driving home from work last night, my cell rang and I saw Trey’s name on my screen, which surprised me because I knew that he was supposed to be at work.  As soon as I said hello, he asked me if I could come over to his apartment and take him to [...]

When I was leaving my office this past Friday, I started thinking about what Avi and I could do this weekend.  I decided that, instead of making specific plans for us, I was just going to enjoy my little Avibug all weekend long.  I decided that I wouldn’t answer emails, work from home, etc. — [...]

1. Helpful kitchen tip: when you happen to run out of aluminum foil but still need to fix something that requires using it, you should not use wax paper as your substitute unless you enjoy the delicious scent of melting plastic filling your home. 2. Listen, how was I supposed to know?  Wouldn’t you think [...]

I haven’t mentioned the crisis in Haiti on the blog but, if you’re my friend on Facebook, you may have seen me post various statuses over the past few days about the unfolding horror that is happening with orphans in Haiti.  The suffering isn’t just limited to orphans, of course; it’s reaching across the island [...]

Tuesday night, another day of Advanced Grammar under my belt. – — – I’m laying in bed writing this and you are not going to believe what Cuddles is doing.  Imagine my hands on top of my laptop, typing this.  Okay, you’ve got the mental image?  Cuddles is laying in my lap, but his head [...]

File this under news that makes me want to jump up and down because I’m so excited: my college girls are back in town for another semester of school, so we started up our weekly Life Group at my house last night!  They’ve been on holiday for awhile, so it was the first time in [...]