I feel very committed to making sure I'm there basically 24/7 for my daughter, and I do my best to take care of my husband. But sometimes I wonder and worry over where I'm putting my priorities and if they're all in the right places. I know that in serving my family, I'm serving God. But I know, also, that serving God doesn't end with serving my ( Read more... )

Today was such a good, rainy, gloomy, lazy Saturday. We had hamburgers and chocolate milkshakes for dinner. Kyrie decided to start crawling (the real thing - hands & knees) today. I am already getting that tingly excited feeling thinking about going to Spokane. Only 11 more days till we're there! This past week flew by, and I'm thinking that this ( Read more... )

Here's the altar at our church. Too bad I didn't get a picture while the candles were still lit.

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The past two years, Rick & I went to Salem Lutheran's Easter Vigil in Spokane, Washington. Our church doesn't have an Easter Vigil, so we are staying home. Rick will be chanting tomorrow morning at the beginning of the Easter service, though. I'm sure it'll be beautiful ( Read more... )

Things have been up in the air for a while about whether or not Rick would teach the Summer II course at ULM. Well, we finally got confirmation that he will be teaching, giving us about an extra $4,000. Now that we know what dates we'll be free, we booked our plane tickets for Spokane. We'll be there for nearly two months, between May 10 & July 6. ( Read more... )

There are few days that I don't think about how happy I am to not be pregnant. I so love my daughter and everything I went through was more than worth it for her, but I am just not ready for that kind of commitment again. Pregnancy wasn't particularly easy for me, what with the throwing up and fainting in Wal-mart and horrible edema and labor & ( Read more... )