Happy National Sibling’s Day! I love learning about other people’s families…what they look like, how they function, and all the juicy details of their particular unit. I met a lovely Korean lady a while back who shared that she came from a large family with eleven kids. Her eyes twinkled as she spoke fondly of…
“Tell Me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I will learn.” -Benjamin Franklin One of the things with having small children is their need to follow us around. Maybe it’s just mine… but if I walk out of the room, they typically drop what they are doing to see…
I’ve always wanted to set my eyes on the vineyards of Italy or take hand-in-hand walks through the cobblestone streets of Paris with Mr. Coppertop. I dream of the adventure and romance, but when it comes to booking a flight, (other than the fact that I don’t have that kind of money) I find that…
I packed up the last of the snowmen yesterday. Not that it’s done snowing, but maybe if I put them away it’ll take a hint and skedaddle 😉 To take their place, I pulled out a handful of Valentine decorations. All three of them. One of them is a Valentine weiner dog whose ears and…
“Better to live in the desert than with a quarrelsome and nagging wife.” Proverbs 21:19 I don’t know why, but this proverb makes me giggle a little, every time I read it… Are there days Mr. Coppertop would rather be in a waterless dust storm, parched from the heat, and in a barren-wasteland than be…
Last week our sweet friends lost their three-month-old baby son. Having a daughter only a couple months older, we felt this very close to our hearts. While we cannot undo their grief, we can learn from their story. And if there is one thing to be done today, it is to hold, love, and cherish… Share this:
Hearing a train whistle blowing in the distance, reminds me of the time, my family lived really close to the tracks. The only thing separating our backyard and the blowing horns was an overgrown patch of blackberries. Share this:
Have you ever had one of those days that you have a million things to do and none of your kids are cooperating with you? Busy mamas and kids who need their attention are two things that always seem to go hand in hand, right? You want to give them the attention they need, but…
“Wherever you are, be all there.” -Jim Elliot. As we set our goals for 2017, let’s remember that people are what matter most. Not everyone in the world, at every moment…but ones you are with right now. Share this:
We are not doing any sort of Christmas advent this year. We do, however, have a little green and red construction paper chain hanging in our dining room. Does that count? I can’t say we started it for holy reasons, though. Share this: