Three kids in a thrid floor, two bedroom condo with no backyard. Life in our little nest above the trees is quickly going from cozy to cramped. As we have nt put our place on the market yet I feel like my life is being lived in a limbo of sorts. Our place is not [...]
Archive for the ‘Soap Box’ Category
13 Oct
I am strong in his hands
Since coming home from Ethiopia God has really been working in my heart in a new and powerful way. In the little time that I get to myself these days I am thinking about what God has done in my life, what he is currently doing and what he plans to do. I am humbled [...]
8 Sep
Something worth experiencing
This exhibit is going to be at Christ Church of Oakbrook in Oakbrook, IL from Sept. 13-20. From what I have watched and read this exhibit promises to stir your heart, and work in your mind. Just watching the exhibit preview left me in tears.
If you are not close to Oakbrook there are other churches [...]
12 Jul
A bad habit, or maybe not.
I must confess that I really loath small toys, things that get under my sofa, under chairs and in corners. You know, those little toys or pieces of toys that end up in a pile of dirt after you have swept. The little pieces that you then have to sift out of the dirt and [...]
25 Jun
The effects of heat
These are just a few of the way the heat affects me:
I stop cooking
I stop grocery shopping, because I am no longer cooking. My family really does not like this, last night we had PB&J.
I forget things, like putting a diaper on my un-potty trained daughter. She very kindly pee’d next to the toilet for [...]
13 Jun
Camera, camera where for art thou camera?
Ugh!! I can’t find my camera. Brian thinks one of the kids walked off with it, which means we may never find it.
Again I am asking myself the quetion; why can’t anything just stay in one place? If it is not nailed down it will probably walk off, and it if is nailed down I [...]
10 Jun
Things you should know about HIV
HIV can NOT be spread through casual/household contact.
HIV is not spread through hugging, kissing, shaking hands, sharing toys, sneezing, coughing, sharing food, sharing drinks, bathing, swimming or any other casual way.
It has been proven that HIV can only be spread through sexual contact, birth, breastfeeding and blood to blood contact (such as sharing [...]
22 Apr
These walls are closing in
Coming off of a very cold, long, winter into a spring that has only had a few really nice days and recently a lot of rain, I feel like the walls of my condo are closing in on me. We have a pretty large, two-bedroom condo but still it ends up feeling small when you [...]
