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November 2012

November 06, 2012

Thankful Tuesday: Adjustment and the Hope of Normal

Today is election day in the US and I know a good blogger would have...

October 2012

October 30, 2012

Thankful Tuesday: Newness and Hope

After a day spent texting and checking on East coast friends and family, what a...

October 09, 2012

Thankful Tuesday: Dumpling Kings, Trader Joes, Little Boy Bow Ties, etc.

How do I count the ways this week? Old friends and the goodness of being...

August 2012

August 14, 2012

Checking In…

Friends! I miss you guys. It’s very weird to go through a week and keep...

June 2012

June 26, 2012

Thankful Tuesday: East Coast Trip Recap

We’re home! It was a sweet trip. And it was long (two weeks!). We left...

June 19, 2012

Thankful Tuesday: 8 Years

Christopher, when we were first dating, riding in cars together, my fingers running through the...

May 2012

May 29, 2012

Thankful Tuesday: Memorial Day Edition

Parents who will drive eight hours and spend money on a hotel room on the...

May 14, 2012

On Sweetness and Mother’s Day

It’s Mother’s Day morning and last night was one of those up and down kinds...

May 08, 2012

Thankful: thunderstorms, parties, and the (lack of) electricity

Oh, I’ve missed big spring thunderstorms in Texas, how they hit at 7:30 at night,...

May 01, 2012

Tomato Thankful

This bright red tomato just picked from our garden. On the last day of April???...

April 2012

April 26, 2012

Dishes and Litany and all that Beauty

I live in the litany of the putting away. The clean dishes go onto shelves,...

March 2012

March 27, 2012

Dirty House Thankful

Come and listen, all you who fear God, and I will tell you what...

March 06, 2012

Thankful Hopeful

Living in Texas where sunsets look like this from the back deck Rocking side by...

February 2012

February 06, 2012

{Practices of Parenting Carnival} In Which I Believe in Family Dance Parties

My family had one living area in our three bedroom ranch house. It had a...

January 2012

January 03, 2012

New Year Thankful

For these boys in red on Christmas night. Christmas with them is always Christmas at...

November 2011

November 29, 2011

After the trip: Thankful

There's no one with whom I would rather spend 20 hours in the car (Wednesday...

November 17, 2011

Transition and Cushion

One Monday night a month, I gather all my energy to corral the chaos of...

November 15, 2011

Katniss, Katy Perry and my cat: a Thankful Tuesday list

Post-church Hohorst-famous pancakes with friends. Realizing on the way home from Writer's Group last night...

November 14, 2011

I’m thinking “Pretty Christmas”

Oh yes, I wish I were crafty. I have a mother who is crafty. And...

November 08, 2011

…because they are so grateful

Finding this on Ann Voskamp’s wonderful blog: “I doubt that there is such a thing...

October 2011

October 28, 2011

Snow piled

We wake up to snow piled on the outdoor table, still parked where it sat...

October 27, 2011

College Thankful

Welcome to Thankful Tuesday on a Thursday. I hope that's not terribly confusing. I spent...

October 25, 2011

Just a Stay at Home Mom (how liberation frees me to love my non-job)

We interrupt our regularly scheduled Thankful Tuesday to bring you my most recent guest post at Her.meneutics...

October 18, 2011

Milk, Pumpkins and Neighbors: A Thankful Tuesday List

My baby learning how to sign “milk” (his arm goes straight up in the air...

October 11, 2011

Tired, but Thankful

How many women out there have a father who would fly to her town for...

September 2011

September 27, 2011

Of course it’s Thankful Tuesday!

The past week has not been an easy one. There was the destruction of my...

September 13, 2011

And, a list!

Here are the thankful things: Home again! Home again! Yes, it’s not the same home,...

September 09, 2011

It’s moving day so let’s read a poem.

Today we move into our house. We open up boxes that were packed on June...

September 06, 2011

God’s Deepening Life in Me, Part 2 (aka: All is Balance, All is Gift)

“In everyday life, then, we must hold ourselves in balance before all created gifts insofar...

August 2011

August 15, 2011

On work and “a new daddy”

Last week, while my 3-year-old was readjusting to life with both his mom and dad,...