maybe a little too ambitious

The first month of 2008 is coming to a close, so it is a good time to revisit my resolutions.
I have been reading this month, but I haven’t even come close to reading a whole book. I started with Rhett Butler’s People, and so far I am really enjoying it, but I’ve only read three chapters. It is [...]

a meatloaf challenge

Some of you may be a little surprised to hear this, but I can’t make meatloaf to save my life. For some reason, meatloaf is one culinary feat that I just cannot master. No, master is the wrong word, because that implies that I have some level of meatloaf competency. I really don’t. My mom makes a decent [...]

how did you find me?

I am continually amazed at how people discover my blog. Most of the hits aren’t really a mystery - people I know, or people who know people I know. But then there are those who happen upon this page because of something they were searching for via the internet. I love to read the search terms that bring people to my page, usually [...]

she’s eating us out of house and home! (literally)

Okay, I’ve heard of dogs chewing on things, but this is getting ridiculous. Amber doesn’t chew things, she EATS things. I mentioned in another post that she eats Q-tips. We’ve almost cured her of that by putting mouse traps in all the bathroom trash cans. But she’s moved on to bigger and better things. Most [...]

writer’s block

I don’t know what is wrong with me lately. I just can’t seem to come up with anything worth blogging about. A few days ago I wrote a nice long post about the world’s perspective about Christians. But when it came time for an ending, I was drawing a blank. So, it sits in my pile [...]

I surrender!!

Kim blogged so eloquently about the snowfall, I won’t try to compete. But I HAD to post a picture of our snowman. The boys did it all by themselves. They had a great start with the lower body, but I think they were tired and running out of snow after that. A picture is worth a [...]

homosexuality and childbirth

This morning while we were eating breakfast, my 6-year old son said to me, “Mom, when I grow up, I hope I get to marry a girl, not a boy.” I replied, “Well, sweetie, God tells us that boys should not marry other boys, so I’m glad you want to marry a girl.” Then my [...]

grounds in my coffee

At 6 AM this morning I stumbled to my coffee pot, trying to muster up the energy to start the day. I filled my cup as usual and just as I began to stir in the creamer and sugar, I noticed that it was full of coffee grounds. It wasn’t really a big surprise - [...]

pondering silverware

I decided to count my silverware this morning. We’ve been using the silverware we got as a wedding gift for almost nine years, and lately it seems like we’re always short of something. The set originally had eight each of knives, forks, salad forks, spoons and soup spoons. I counted all the silverware I could find - dirty, clean, and in [...]

time for an upgrade?

Sometimes it seems like life is just one upgrade after another.  We start out small -small house, small car, small TV - and then little by little we upgrade. We all do it. Even I am thinking about a flat screen TV for the Super Bowl, and I don’t even watch football!
But there is one popular [...]