Labor Day Weekend Festivities









The song “Blessed Be Your Name” has been a theme song for Dan and I for a few years now. This is a song that we blare when it comes on the radio and sing it at the top of our lungs. Yes, we are those “sing in the car” people. This song has been…
First of all, thank you to all those who came to the visitation yesterday! To hear people talk about how much they admired my dad, his wisdom, godliness, and so much more, made me so proud and humbled to call him “dad”. He is someone who truly left a legacy – may this be a…
One thing about Michigan winters (that we kind of forgot about) was that they can drastically change in temperature (not just weather like MN). It was in the mid-30s one day and Mazy’s cousins came over to play. They were sweet enough to take Mazers out too, and what a ball she had! I don’t…
Motherhood. A gift wrapped with unexplainable love for someone else, a love that is fostered in the tiniest of details, a patience that holds no limits, and a joy unexplainable. Over the past, well, MANY years, I have often thought about what it means to be a mother. I always struggled with the question “do…
It has been another interesting week’s worth of weather! We had a few 2 hour delays and a day we closed early. Today it is another blustery one (picture above), as church was closed yet again. Gusts are supposed to be over 50mph today with snow mixed in. I would chalk it up to living…
Nights at home are pretty rare for us. Being in youth ministry, much like how teenagers are night owls, the majority of ministry happens at night too. I would love to say that I have the “night owl” gene in me yet, but unfortunately I don’t think it ever was. Especially now. I have been…