It smells so beautiful!!!

     The very first day of my career as a mother educating my children was the day I taught my oldest child subtraction with strawberries: we made a pile, counted them, ate one, and then counted how many are left.  We did this process over and over.  He loved it; we ate till our…

     Theologians tend to pick a starting point for their theology, and unpack the meaning of the Gospel from that perspective.  One picks becoming sanctified, another picks grace, another picks beauty, another picks poverty, another picked justice, and so on.      If I were a theologian, I would pick the concept of “being…

   Today Leigh was explaining why she does not want to be a dentist when she grows up:“I’d have to deal with all that sal-I-ma (instead of saliva)!”     Sal-I-ma sounds a lot like slime–which is, I suppose, what she thinks about saliva.     Hence her intelligent decision not to go into dentistry.  

We had SUCH a delightful visit from the cousins–August, Sienna and Baby Leo!  What an Easter blessing it was to be with them!!