Here are my little Dutchgirls (both in real life and pretend!) As you can see, we really go in for scary costumes!

And here are our little twin- bobs, funnier than ever. And in case you were wondering due to our inspecific clothing, Chloe is on the left, Titus on the right.

So, happy Trick or Reformation […]

One of the things my husband enjoys immensely is engaging in debate over the truth of the gospel. So he is having a fabulous time on the East Coast traveling with and debating Christopher Hitchens. They have just arrived in Philadelphia after being flown from NYC via helicopter. Though Doug spent several years in the […]

My sister-in-law has a new blog called “Sweet Peas and Happy Things,” which is a fitting name for it because she is a devoted wife and mother, an avid gardener, homemaker, cook, and seamstress. As long as I have known her (she married my brother over thirty years ago)  she has been characterized by sweetness. […]

This was one of those fun unplanned projects that go a long way toward filling up the tanks of your local ballerinas. We are working on scissor skills, so I let her lay into a catalog with some and Elmer’s glue it like there was no tomorrow! The end result was pretty wacked out of […]

I was talking with a friend the other day about how limited we can feel some times, but in a different way than I was describing in the post called Two Hands. It has more to do with the concept of enlarging our hearts, expanding our capacity to give and enjoy, to handle interruptions, to […]

Pssstt!! Would you be a dream and just dash over to the Fortnightly Purse and do one more quick survey? I promise I’ll stop with the survey thing . . . it’s just that I need some info at the moment. And if you do, you can get another entry for the purse . . […]