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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…
I was sitting at my desk at school (I am a part-time elementary secretary), glancing up at the pictures I have pinned up on the cork board. Pictures of Mazy’s big blue eyes staring right back at me, pictures of her when she was but just a few months old, and candid pictures of life…
HAPPY NEW YEAR! I’m excited to Lord-willing, keep up this blog as it has been an extension of not only my heart, but of my faith. I hope that you are encouraged through it to live your life for God, to keep the faith, to live simply, and to just be real. The real YOU….
The past 3 Saturdays have become a new “normal” for us in the spring and fall. The biggest fundraiser that our youth group does is take out docks/boat lifts for various people, on various lakes. Moving out to Minnesota, I hadn’t really heard much about this “job.” Living near Lake Michigan, the docks were permanent,…
Can I just say how thankful I am to be on this side of all my heart surgeries? This time last year I was just trying to survive being at home, wondering if I could do it. It was incredibly difficult some days, but we made it through and I look at where I am…
The start of a new year always promises new beginnings. New ways of doing things. New habits. New this, new that. I think it’s healthy for us as humans to have these moments – times to sit back and think forward. Where are we going in life? What do we want to be doing? What…