Have you ever tried to open your kitchen gadget drawer and it gets stuck halfway? Or dig through to the bottom of the pile and realize that it was tucked way in the back? Kitchen gadgets clog our drawers and when we really need something, it takes a few tries to find exactly what we…
Don’t know about you, but we sure received a lot of rain this week! We had an incredible amount of rain – I heard 10 inches and then I heard 7 inches, but regardless, that is a LOT of rain! Needless to say, we got water in our basement, which only helps me just get…
I was NOT a reader as a child. Just ask my mom who tried and tried to read to me, but I wanted nothing to do with it. I struggled with comprehension, which made reading and even understanding what I was reading, that much more difficult. After some testing Dan and I had done after…
It’s a work in progress, to say the least. Dan was gone to Haiti for two weeks on a mission trip and it had given me some time to think about how we live our life. I have thought about our past mission trips to third world countries and those trips always caused me to…
On July 11, 2016, Dan took a group (along with two leaders) down to Children Of The Promise, in Haiti. It was a trip years in the making, but a trip well worth the planning and investment. They left bright and early that Monday morning at 1:00am from Prinsburg. After many hours of travel, they…
The alarm goes off the first day of school and even though it’s your normal alarm, it feels like the tornado siren. The chaos, the running around, the panic, and maybe even a few tears begin. Even though I do not have a child who is of school-age yet, I work at a school and…
