From my back porch I can see my two oldest kids playing in the thin strip of pine trees between our house and our neighbor’s house. Depending on the season, I can almost be fooled. When the leafy vines that grow wild grapes are full and green it can seem as though there [...]
This is who I informed my grandma (“Ma”) would be coming to Snow Hill over the weekend. And that, obviously, I would need HELP! Juggling a camera, a baby and a chicken is no easy task, my friends. Around Easter I had been looking for a 4-H club to get involved in. After [...]
I adore a day when no one has to be anywhere and we can stay in our jammies with messy hair all day long if we want to. I mean I really, really do. Don’t you? After a couple hours of waking up slow and lounging around I decided to take the kids for [...]
Rief arrived about seven weeks ago now and was my biggest labor of love yet. In addition to being informed of his cleft lip during pregnancy, and a little concern about low fluids during the end of it, there were labor room difficulties that I certainly didn’t foresee. Say, “Can you imagine what women [...]
“There are no accidents, no mistakes, and everything is still on schedule.” - -C. H. Spurgeon In two days, on Wednesday the 11th, we will drive up to Chapel Hill for what should be our final prenatal doctor visit. My original due date was the 24th, but last Thursday they told us to pack our [...]
Yesterday morning I called about picking up some eggs at a farm down the road and the man said, “Do you want a pig too?” He proceeded to to explain to me that this runt he was referring to was born a week ago to a litter of 15 piglets and hadn’t been able to [...]
These video links were sent to my email a few days ago. “20/20″ has spent the last year researching the over-prescribing of drugs to children in the foster system. Although I’m aware of a lot that goes on in the foster system, I wasn’t aware of this as an issue before. I can’t say that I’m [...]
I need a housekeeper. Truly I do. How can I ever talk to the outside world as though I have anything at all together when I’m sitting here staring down a sink full of dirty dishes, attempting to get my Community Bible Study done while the kids run and scream in my peripheral, and thinking about [...]
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