On Christmas Eve morning, we woke up to find that our furnace had stopped working.

In these final days of Advent, I am way behind on my preparation for Christmas.

At this time of year, alarm clocks seem to go off during the middle of the night. But we have to get up and get the day started, even when it looks like midnight outside. So, I climb out of bed and make sure my high schooler is awake. I ask him what he wants […]

When we were waiting to adopt our older son, we had a long to-do list.

Maybe you didn’t even realize Advent had started. You feel like you’ve fallen behind. Advent will rush by, and Christmas will come, and you’ll never catch up.

~1~ I had thought that this would be the first Thanksgiving we would spend with extended family since 2019. By Wednesday afternoon, however, I could see that that wasn’t going to happen, thanks to a few sicknesses running through the family. My mother told me she would be happy to share the food she had […]

May this season of gatherings offer us opportunities to open our arms and hearts to others – and to be ready to entertain angels along the way.

I groaned as I saw the frost on my car. And then I saw the smile.

We are still eating our way through the apples we picked last week, so I made an apple cake. Our house smells sweet and cinnamon, but this beautiful cake only used six apples.

Like many other people, we bought a Powerball ticket. Then we did a little dreaming.