Empty Inkwell

Alrighty, friends. I am off to Lost Canyon. I barely slept last night! Partly because I was so excited, and partly because pack­ing takes twice as long when you are pack­ing for a baby! This so back­wards… but seri­ously, I packed more for Cora than I did for myself… you just never know what may hap­pen and what you might need […]

Each year, as a part of my husband’s posi­tion as the assis­tant youth direc­tor for our church, he takes a group of high school kids to a Young Life sum­mer camp… as if he needed it to be in the job descrip­tion. Hon­estly, it’s a blast. Both the youth direc­tor and Matt (and me too!) were Young Life leaders […]

I woke up this morn­ing to a hazy light peek­ing through the blinds in my bed­room win­dow; the gray­ish light made me think it was much ear­lier than it really was (thank you Cora for let­ting me sleep ‘til 8:30). I picked Cora up and made my way to the liv­ing room. I looked out the slid­ing glass […]

My sister-in-law, Tina, gave birth to a baby boy on June 30th. She and my brother, Jonathan, named him Wyatt Allen. Wyatt weighed 7lbs. and 10 oz, and was 21 inches long. Isn’t he absolutely adorable?! It was such a bless­ing to be at the hos­pi­tal with Jonathan and Tina and share in the mir­a­cle of baby […]

Don’t let any­one look down on you because you are young, but set an exam­ple for the believ­ers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity. This morn­ing my church held a spe­cial “Pro­mo­tion Sun­day” ser­vice to honor the high school seniors as they “grad­u­ate” from the youth pro­gram, and to wel­come incoming […]

Isn’t it funny how the same event can be absolute mis­ery to one per­son and be cause for cel­e­bra­tion to another? I thought about this today as I was jump­ing up and down, grin­ning ear to ear, while Cora whined and looked at me with sad eyes and a sour, con­fused expres­sion. Cause for these polar oppo­site reactions… […]