August 9th 2011
This post was published on my husband’s blog tonight. Here’s our big news:
“In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.” Proverbs 16:9
I was in my early 20’s when someone first asked me “Are you planning on being a youth pastor forever?” My response was typically “Well, I think [...]
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July 10th 2011
Again, I’m late with this post. I should have put it up on Father’s day, but didn’t.
I want to share a story about my dad.
One of my first memories was a time when my mom, brothers and I went to the airport to pick up my dad after he came [...]
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May 16th 2010
I meant to write this on Mother’s Day, but didn’t get to it. Finally found a moment to write it!
We all go through ups and downs with our parents and sometimes it seems like the roller coaster is a bit curvier with our parent of the same sex. e.g. girls have a tougher [...]
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June 29th 2009
I hope it doesn’t seem silly to post this now, but I wrote it when Hannah was still in school a couple of months ago; I just never published it. But here goes:
My 11-year-old daughter asked me to come to her school and eat lunch with her today. I think it’s great that she [...]
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April 14th 2009
Hannah’s birthday was last Tuesday – on April 7th. She turned 11-years-old. It seems like time is flying by now. I remember when she was first born and someone told Alan and me that the next years would go by so fast; to enjoy them. At the time, Hannah was getting [...]
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March 29th 2009
We went a whole week with no t.v. for the kids. I had to clarify that because Alan and I HAD to watch American Idol – both nights of it! But that was after the kids went to bed.
Overall, it was a very good experience for us. Some of the [...]
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March 23rd 2009
We are going to turn the television off for the kids for a week. I had a wake-up call yesterday at church. Spencer said some terrible things to his shadow (the guy that stays with him in his Sunday school class) and I am fairly certain they came from some television shows he [...]
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March 3rd 2009
Today is my big brother’s birthday. Big brother is actually a very fitting description of him; he’s not only older than me, he’s a big man. He was a big kid, too. This did not work in my favor because like most big brothers, he liked to teach me new things – [...]
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February 27th 2009
Today is my birthday. I wanted to share about a gift that my dad gave me one year that I thought was pretty cool. I can’t remember how old I was when he gave it to me, but I still have it somewhere packed up with special things.
My dad wrote me [...]
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