The thing about mercy is--I often don't know what it looks like. I know what I think it should be. Certainly not closing on "our...

Sorry for the silence lately, folks. There's been a lot going on, but there has been so much unpredictability regarding the main "t...

Since I am 17 weeks pregnant--almost halfway there!--I guess it's high time I did a little pregnancy update. This pregnancy has been s...

Linking up with Lisa-Jo for this week's Five Minute Friday. The prompt: Story . Go! ~*~*~ Most days I live like I'm the autho...

Linking up with Lisa-Jo over at Five Minute Friday. This week's prompt: Jump. Go. it's contagious if you're around someone...

thirty.  i've been trying not to think about this birthday, while simultaneously trying to figure out how i'm here already. how i c...

When it comes to Easter, it seems that Mike and I are well on our way to making a tradition of  changing things up. Easter 2008: This was ...

Linking up with Lisa-Jo for this week's Five Minute Friday: Broken. Go. I'd much rather be the one who is broken than the one w...

I had this nicely packaged post I was going to share with you, half written and saved as a draft. It went something like this: I've be...

Some days I realize I will never be able to say enough thank-yous for the graces drenching my life   His living Word renewing and tra...

It's Five Minute Friday over at Tales of a Gypsy Mama , and I'm joining in! ~~~   I don't know what it is about exhaustio...

joining the crowd over at tales of a gypsy mama --it's five minute friday!    i feel like i can get nothing done today. it's one ...

Life right now is really good...rich, and full, and good. I'm learning that life is always "good," because God is always good...

When I saw Lainie's pediatrician last week, we came to the conclusion that Lainie's dairy intolerance symptoms are so incredibly mil...

It appears that in order to be trendy and "in" with the rest of the world's bloggers, I need to choose a word that defines wha...

I'm not afraid of the dark. And I love all four seasons. But the last couple of years, come November and December, I've wondered if ...

Every Christmas I struggle over how to keep my focus on Christ. It's so easy to get caught up in trying to do every Christmasy craft tha...

...of the year! How is it already December, pray tell? I could have sworn that Halloween was last week. My own home betrays my sense of t...

In my head, I do battle with SIDS daily. I think that I have a great excuse for being freaked out that sudden infant death syndrome may sn...

Linking up with Lisa-Jo over at Tales of a Gypsy Mama for this week's Five Minute Friday. The challenge? Write for five minutes using h...