Merry Christmas!


It’s summer! I would say this week it FINALLY is feeling like summer here in West Michigan. Can I get a woohoo? Growing up, I used to VERY MUCH dislike reading. I don’t like to use the “h” word that rhymes with “ate”, but picking up a book just for fun, well, didn’t sound like…
Start the list: You haven’t finished the laundry. You haven’t made that new recipe. You haven’t organized your kids’ papers. You haven’t made a “good” supper in weeks. You haven’t exercised in who knows how long. You haven’t done this. And you haven’t done that. I am sure you can fill in the blanks. Think…
We are back! It has been a crazy past few weeks, but we are now home sweet home! Two weeks ago, we took our junior highers to Duluth for the week. We were looking so forward to this trip because we don’t get to spend as much time with the junior highers as we’d like…
Impact-Site-Verification: 81b8ca4c-443b-4197-bd66-a6ba96464f26 It felt like “one more thing”. It was only three months after finishing up chemo, after my first cancer diagnosis, that I showed signs of a relapse. We prayed for a false positive, but as the weeks and months moved forward, it was evident that once again, my leukemia was taking over my…
I am realizing that our weeks tend to look the same, so there are “repetitive events” but there is always a cute picture to be taken (if I think of it). Though it was a bit chilly at times this week, it warmed up to be spring-like weather again! Except of course there were leaves…
STILL CANCER FREE!!! I am 10 months post transplant, over 2 years into the journey, and God has graciously given our family the gift of healing from cancer. Not completely out of the woods, but every negative test is a step in the right direction. When I was diagnosed the first time with leukemia, Mazy…