This is the first year in I can’t remember how many years that I have not hosted Thanksgiving dinner. So, I had the luxury of buzzing around with the camera. It was a wonderful day.

Nathan managing his dinner in a grown-up chair.

Miika and her best buddy Joshua…too excited to sit still for a picture!

I have decided that the best emotional place to be is in God’s hands. I can not waste energy worrying about the future, the details, the bills. Yes, I have to pay them, but I’m not going to worry. God has supplied our needs in such amazing and unexpected ways, I just have to sit [...]

This year is the tightest we’ve ever been financially…..EVER! So, my challenge is how to get gifts for everyone without any money…
Well, yesterday I happened to be watching Oprah and she had her tidy-man-guru, Peter Walsh on the show after he’d buzzed around the country helping folks clean up their houses. One fantastic idea was [...]

It’s a strange place to be…in our home that we’ve completely transformed over the past 7 years, where our children’s lives began, where our lives have woven into a community, in a home that is ours. But our eyes are set on a tiny wreck of a place where our new neighbors have no connection [...]

The split second that Barack Obama had clearly won the election, this city started to rock. We heard fireworks for about an hour. It was as if the King had arrived. I’m glad that I was not down in Grant Park because I don’t like crowds, but I must admit that it’s exciting to be [...]