My friend is gone. She moved away. And I am even more sad than I thought I would be. (small tear trickling down my cheek) That’s all. Jennifer

I wrote this journal entry: I rediscovered it while sorting through some boxes yesterday, and what laughing we have done while reading it!  The next journal entry, written by my Dad a couple of weeks later indicates that I had completed the 3rd set of book reports, for a total of 45 written book reports.  [...]

A few days after coming home from Denver, my sister and her family joined us for a weekend at our house.  Except for attending church, where we had 14 children sitting between a set of parents on each end of a VERY LONG row (18 chairs, to be exact), all we did was play.   It [...]

“Family faces are like magic mirrors.  Looking at people who belong to us, we see past, present and future.” I just love these faces. Hopeful Homemaker

Somehow, each time we visit my parents, we end up having some unusual experience with wildlife.  This last trip was no different.  Elk wandered into our camp, and they were breathtakingly beautiful. They were completely uninterested in us, and paused to glance at us only occasionally.  They were only concerned in eating.  I was so [...]

While we were in Colorado we camped for one night in a beautiful spot where I remember playing as a girl.  Homes have since been built closer to it but it’s retained its beauty. I climbed on these rocks as a girl, and had my share of frightened moments when the bats came flying out [...]

There’s nothing in the world like visiting your Grandma and Grandpa.  We had a wonderful time with my mom and dad in Colorado, and I want to share some pictures of our weekend there.  They had an awesome spot set up for us in the basement and we enjoyed a weekend with beautiful weather spent [...]

We drove to Denver for Memorial Day Weekend.  It was a wonderful, whirlwind weekend full of family and fun activities.  Our main purpose for the trip was to celebrate the 8th birthday and the baptism of my niece. She’s my sister’s daughter, and it had been WAY too long since we’ve seen their family.  I’ve [...]

Wednesday was my husband’s birthday. I can’t remember the last time he had a more exhausting day than his birthday turned out to be, and we’ve had some tough days in recent weeks and months.  I bought doughnuts to go with breakfast so we could sing to him early in the day, but the box [...]

Monday was the big day.  Time to get three pins removed from my son’s finger.  We took a picture before we went, and you can see one of the pins just begging to pop out of his hand.  The other two were less obvious. At the Doctor’s office, more x-rays confirmed that the bone has [...]