I had dragged little people down there at 8pm, with sleeping bags, a paintbrush, and a large cup of coffee in hand. We made makeshift beds for them on the carpet padding, and then got to work.   Always fighting back panic with song. But the panic gained ground. and gave way to panicked pleading. […]

**Note: I know many people have asked for an update on our move and how things are going in our new neighborhood, but since I have been painting, and working on renovations and unpacking boxes and feeding small people and lugging laundry through the path of boxes and chaos, I don’t have it written up […]

There was a lot of weeping that week.  It had been the longest 9 months of my life. The exhaustion had completely overtaken me, and yet the new school schedules and homework and meals and children’s needs drove me on. Labor seemed like a relief. A hospital stay, a chance to sit still ….finally. We […]

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart….and  your paths will be straight”   Proverbs 3:5-6 There’s nothing that makes my paths more crooked than pregnancy, and the hormones, fatigue and sickness it brings. I plan a course of action, a schedule and an agenda…..and then I don’t have the energy to carry it out. […]

It’s posted right in my windowsill over the sink… The kids and I sing it on the way to school… Its a lifeline and bedrock when every physical thing around me is shifting (or being hauled to the dump) “Yes, they shall sing of the ways of the Lord.  For GREAT is the glory of […]