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Our final big summer event of the year has come and gone, all too quickly! Last week, we headed to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, for Dan’s family vacation in Munising. If you are wondering what this town has to offer, think Pictured Rocks National Park. Dan and I were both here as kids, but…
Back to routine! As much as I love summer, I do love the routine of the school year. School year officially started for me this week, and oh how I just love being an elementary secretary! Never a dull day and kids come in saying the funniest things! It’s pretty amazing too, the little boo-boos…
I know why I sometimes get nervous about Dan being left to “fend” for himself on certain tasks. He ends up doing things like this: We do not own a ladder, but know plenty of people who do in town. Though, Dan decides to be “creative” by creating his OWN ladder. He calls it…
One thing (among many) that Mazy has taught me is to see the world with eyes wide open. If you have taken notice, she has some pretty big blue eyes. Not only are they big and blue, but she lifts up her eyebrows, wrinkles her forehead, to open them even wider. Of course I think…
Everyone struggles with guilt. This feeling that we should have done something a different way. Made a different choice. Acted in a kinder way. Said it a different way. Or should have not said anything at all. Guilt. Then there is this guilt when we think… Did my child have too much screen time today?…
Six months ago today, we were handed a little gift of life in our arms. A little life that has changed our lives in the most beautiful way. When we named our sweet girl Mazy Grace, we wanted it to be a testimony of God’s grace in our lives. Mazy has been all of that…