Tag: family
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Endings Bring New Beginnings
This weekend I am on the last Christmas/New Year’s, help-people-with-their-dogs adventure for at least two weeks. I promise I really did quit dog-sitting as a business. Last year Erica would wonder how much “quitting” was actually had… Speaking of Last Year Erica… I was thinking about a year ago today. I remember how tired and…
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A New Hope
A few months ago, one of my mom’s friends, who also happens to be a Golden Retriever breeder, was “given” a dog. A Golden Retriever of course, that she could breed with one of her males. No problem, right? Except things seemed off with this new dog in the house. It wasn’t bad, necessarily. It…
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Sitting, Wishing, Waiting
It’s amazing what happens when I don’t blog for almost a whole week. It’s like a whole week of life happens. Last weekend, my friend Rachel sold her books at SantaCaliGon Days in Independence, Missouri, and I volunteered to be the main helper. It was one of the worst weekends to sell books weather-wise, but…
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The Trouble With Journaling
A lot of things have happened over the last week to cause me to feel like “now is a good time to write.” And then I came home from my Chicago trip and it felt like the world was falling down around me. I’d like to say I’m okay with a certain amount of stress,…
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Update On “The Purge”…
*note: I will be saying “we” when talking about things the Lord is having me do because He has been using it when talking to me about what I need to do… it’s just the language and not so much that He is doing any of the physical stuff except directing me on what to…
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The “Age Old” Question
A conversation I had with a friend earlier today prompted this blog, so we’ll see if I can remain on task. A lot of people in the Christian “world” struggle with what is acceptable to expose their children to and at what age would a thing be appropriate. For instance, (hot button topic incoming)Harry Potter.…
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Undetermined
Based on the above pictures, you would think I’d have a lot to talk about. I really feel like I don’t though. And that’s why nobody has heard from me in a while. So far, everything I’ve been doing in my normal life is just that: normal. I colored my hair again. Hung out with…
My Social Media-less Life 