"I don't want to be a cliché," I tell him late one night after a hard day."What do you mean?" he asks."I don't want to be the wife who pesters her …
gifts in a parking lot
Boy 1 woke up with something on his mind."I had a dream about people who are poor. They only had a little soup, and were so hungry. Mom, I …
love is a battlefield
The babysitter arrived at 6:30. Boy 1 turned green suddenly. He felt horrible. Maybe we should stay home. Our romantic night was dissolving. A …
holy walls
The words, they sound like a truckload of bricks,Dropped in the lap, unexpected and unknown. What to build with these statements, fragments, and …
believing love
The doorbell rings repeatedly and three blonde heads with big blue eyes look through the glass door shouting, "We're home! We're home!". I open the …
well-known
We all have different limits. Some people can simply endure more than others. Nature trumps nurture unless we engage our wills.The Baby Lady is …
on a love quest
Valentine's Day is coming. Maybe you think it is the best holiday ever and you relish the chance to eat chocolate unabashedly. Maybe you (like my …
the heart and the bottle
This is the new book on my list of favorite fiction books. The Heart and the Bottle by Oliver Jeffers. I swooned when I read it.It is very …
eight years is like a day
At some point in the past eight years, I blinked one time too many andthisbecame thisBirthdays are supposed to be all about the person who is turning …
Silver and Gold
Mirror, mirror, tell me now,If and when and why and how;This life became centered on me,On mine and ours and us and we.Saved by His love for what I …
the selfish parent
Boy 2 was caught in the in-between yesterday at the Y. Two months too young for the room for bigger kids, and bored in the room with little people. …
What This Year Was All About
2011 was our first full year back in Austin, and therefore was my first full year as a pastor's wife. We began the year with buying an old house with …