It's Thurday. I am thankful. After my grandmother's funeral last weekend, I am reminded again of how thankful I am for my family. I ...

3/24/2011 My dear grandmother, Grandma Nellie, passed away yesterday. She was 90 years old. She was such a gracious, humble lady. She provid...

3/23/2011 With spring just arriving on the scene, it's hard to think ahead to the dog days of summer and the local 4H County Fair. But n...

3/22/2011 Pastor and author Max Lucado once wrote: make all important life decisions in a cemetery. Indeed, it will help keep things in pers...

3/21/2011 Last weekend we headed to Sugar Camp Days, being held at a local county park. We are fortunate to live in a part of America wh...

3/18/2011 It's Friday! This was a week that flew by, because we kept very busy. We had a surprise overnight house guest one night. We wa...

To cultivate an ongoing spirit of thankfulness, I'm thinking through the things - both big and small - that I want to thank the Lord for...

3/16/2011 Cutting onions. I hate it. I cry every time. Recently I came across this tip: cut the onion in your sink while running a slow stre...

We have been reading through the Little House series and are now finishing book two - Little House on the Prairie . We'd read the first ...

3/14/2011 My 7-year-old daughter is so pretty. She's a girly-girl, who loves to be the princess, all dressed up in dresses and jewelry. ...

3/11/11 As much as we are longing for spring's arrival, we had snow again this week. Winter just doesn't want to let go! :-( But it...

3/10/2011 I've mentioned more than once that we've been sick lately. The reality is that all 4 of us have been sick off and on for o...

3/9/2011 Yesterday we enjoyed a very cool field trip to one of the largest dairy farms in America - Fair Oaks Farms! Fair Oaks Farms i...

3/8/2011 It's been a long week, with sickness and some other stressful situations happening at our house. Yesterday, though, there was o...

3/7/2011 It's Monday. We are still battling illness at our house. We have plans tomorrow and Wednesday, so I am hoping we are better by ...

3/4/2011 It's Friday. We've had a long week that included many days of sickness. My 3-year-old son is battling a double ear infectio...

3/3/2011 My daughter and I are starting a new series of books - the Little House on the Prairie series. This week we read the first book - L...

3/2/2011 The thought of having a meeting about a budget may send some folks running for the hills. That'd be my husband. On the other h ...

3/1/2011 We enjoyed a field trip last weekend to the Air Zoo in Kalamazoo, Michigan (thanks to our family's "adopted" grandpa...

2/28/2011 Last week we enjoyed a field trip to a nearby fire station. Almost annually we've visited fire stations in our area. But...