November 5, 2011

Grace in Small Things: Sunday Edition #32

1. a road trip with my oldest and my youngest 2. a bedtime snack 3. a friend with a kid my kid’s age who likes Star Wars 4. sharing equipment 5. the knowledge that my friend is no longer a woman of faith, but a woman of sight Grace in Small Things is a social [...]

November 4, 2011

texting necessity

My morning went a little something like this: 8:30am Drop Kaylie off at school. 8:45am Get back home. 9:00am Baby falls asleep for his morning nap. 9:05am Kaylie calls from school saying something about vomiting everywhere. 9:06am Wake baby from nap. 9:20am Pick Kaylie up from school. 9:35am Get back home. 10:05am Finally get baby [...]

November 3, 2011

Miss Laurie

My friend Laurie went to be with the Lord this past week after a courageous battle with Leukemia. She was an amazing lady, a good friend, and one who loved being a mom more than anyone I’d ever met. Like most of my Saskatchewan friends, I met Laurie through our blogs. She was so welcoming [...]

November 2, 2011

life list

My friend Schmutzie wrote a life list the other day. I loved many items on her list, but I told her I would have loved to help her with her #43 – witnessing and photodocumenting a birth. Did I want a delivery room full of people? HECK NO. But, my mom witnessed and photographed immediately [...]

November 1, 2011

because I didn’t have anything going on

I decided to participate in NaBloPoMo again this year. Crazy, right? I know. I just can’t help it. It’s like a sickness. I’m feeling all apathetic and depressed today, for reasons I can share with you later, and I was tempted to just say, I DON’T CARE! and blow off Day One of this NaBloPoMo [...]