Our precious daughter, Evelyn Delphine Mary, is here! She was born weighing 8 lbs + 6 oz and was 20.5 inches. We are home from the hospital and settling into this new life with 3 little loves.  I am praising the Lord through the newborn fog and sleep-deprivation.  She is absolutely a dream come true.

Homeschooling is such a big topic and one that is so close to my heart, it is almost hard to write about it.   It’s a topic on which everyone likely has an opinion and just as every family and every child is unique, every family’s education choice is unique.  I can only share why we…

The summer days are long and humid as July draws to a close and we wait with eager expectation for our baby girl to be born in August. We were blessed to escape the heat around the 4th of July and spend a few weeks at our cottage in Michigan. We spent a lot of…

“In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light In summer, quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. And does it not seem hard to you, When all the sky is clear and blue, And I should like so much to play, To have to go to…

In early May, our family brought home 3 pekin ducklings. We ordered our little ladies from Murray McMurray and, believe it or not, the sweet little things came through the mail. We ordered them a few weeks before their anticipated “hatch date,” so the boys and I were so excited and counting down the days…

Once upon a time, there lived two little boys who were brothers.  They were named Wynn and James.  They lived in a magical little place at the foot of the Brushy Mountains.  Now these mountains were not tall but rather quite short as far as mountains go, but they were lush and green and covered…

    We are expecting a baby GIRL!! I simply cannot wrap my mind around the joy of it all. Anyone who reads my words regularly knows that I adore my little boys, in the heart-bursting, mind-boggling, hypnotizing way that is motherhood.  A third little boy was what we expected.  A little Peter.  We could…

Dear friends, Thank you to all who have checked on me . . . I never meant to stop writing for so many months.  We are, delightfully, expecting another sweet baby this summer and the first five months of pregnancy were very difficult on me.  Kate Middleton-difficult, without the fancy title or expensive shoes.  I…

When my first baby was born, my world cracked open and turned on its head.  A river came rushing out of the seams of my life, explosive and consuming, a love with such force it couldn’t possibly be contained.  The memory of those days is still fresh.  That girl, that new mother, is still with…

“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” -Anne Shirley, Kindred Spirit