

Rain Makes Applesauce
Drip, drip, drip. Splatters, splashes. It's been a rainy couple days here in So Cal, and boy are we glad for it. Drought is a serious...


fabric scrap dry-erase calendar
Fall in Southern California doesn't contain all the rich colors and cooler sweater weather that you people on the east coast and in the...


(un)contained
A few months ago, a lovely neighbor gave us a young pomegranate tree. It had been given to her as a thank you gift, but she had no space...


wood bench refurb
I am the oldest child of three, born to an accountant dad and a crafty pediatric nurse mom. I graduated college with a degree in history...


thankful
I'm not going to lie. There are days that go by where I do forget to thank God for these precious gifts (at least, consciously). When I...
fearless
"I sought the Lord, and he answered me; he delivered me from all my *fears*." (Psalm 34:4) How often do I (you?) ask God to free me...
parenting in fear
"Running directly at the herd is a ploy to generate panic" David Attenborough's voice comes through the Netflixed first episode of Planet...
God
God does not treat his holiness or sin lightly. Neither does he treat his relentless pursuit of me lightly. To do anything other would...


#Baltimore
. ..and how, may I ask, might people feel when we feel free to wholeheartedly condemn the destruction of property, but not with equal (or...
cry and rest
102.2. At least that hot, according to the forehead strip thermometer. He's feverish, but not terribly fussy as long as he is being held...