Sometimes I feel a desperation to know someone who is succeeding in a life more difficult than mine.  I need to know that it is possible to ...

Not the most flattering picture... I'm laying in bed writing my meal plan so I can go grocery shopping today. Christmas is swirling in m...

Recently, I was struck by a verse in the New Testament.   In John 4, we read about the Samaritan woman who Christ speaks to at the well.  As...

Someday, one of my five daughters will call me three days before Thanksgiving.  She will be at that place I know so well, where dreams and r...

Homemaking is inevitable, foundational, simple, and eternal.  Homemaking is the way we mother, the way we serve others, and the way we becom...

We are on a quest to delight in the Sabbath Day. For a few years now, I have been aware that we are missing something.  Sunday has been a LO...

Todd's Aunt Marilyn has lived with his parents for years.  She was a beautiful, saintly woman completely paralyzed by MS.  Marilyn was a...

We went with Todd's cousins to jump off a bridge in St Anthony. It was SO fun and so beautiful. I am the oldest in my mother's famil...