As I write this, I am in the car with my family driving north on PA Route 21. We just dipped down into my favorite valley where the water's edge comes up to the same level as the road. It almost feels like we're in a speed boat! There it is, this gorgeous tranquil water, it's mirror-like surface shimmering, reflecting the sunlight with its tossing ripples right outside your window. Moments Continue Reading
Clara’s Frozen Birthday Party
Celebrate LOVE!!! For as "Frozen" shows us, LOVE makes everything right! My daughter and her good friend were born a day apart! I saw her mom in hospital as we both prepared for our babies' arrivals! She always teases that we were racing and I won! Clara came 3 weeks early so that win was a surprise but a timely delivery for sure! We are both in awe that it has already been 6 years! How does Continue Reading
Celebrate Sharing!
With a large family you share almost everything. But that's when you find that joy multiplies in the sharing. When you finally just surrender what you think was yours, realizing it wasn't yours in the first place (just as I remind my kids I gave 'it' for them in the first place, I expect them to share 'it', I try to remember God gave 'it' to me in the first place, I need to share 'it ' - Continue Reading
Celebrating Family Today
[Written earlier this week...] We have a few videos rolling and almost ready to share, but in the meantime, more life happens than one can ever catch! In this one day, we celebrated young life (kissing my babies cheeks as they woke, throwing a small party for our 'almost' 5 year old) and deeply mourned the loss of old life (we found this morning that one of the dearest people in all the Continue Reading