It wasn’t that people didn’t offer. “How can I help?” “Do you want me to come over and unpack with you?” And it wasn’t that I was too stubborn to say yes. I turned down a lot of help because of this— I wanted to do it my way. I’m not Martha Stewart but I…
In the midst of packing my husband shared a revelation. The day we move to the house we believe is the last one for us is ten years to the day we moved to Ohio. Wow. Some days it feels like yesterday, and others, 100 years. I know this much—when my husband approached me over…
I’m not good at waiting. I’ve told this story before, but it’s so me, it bears repeating. When my husband and I were engaged, he lived a couple hours away. He was making plans to move to the city I was in, but it was two months away. I held on….
I remember blogging briefly about the dandelion before, but the visual and application keeps coming back to me, so I thought instead of exercising (I will later, promise!) I would expand on it. Our youngest has loved dandelions since she could walk. Each year she’d gather them and present them as bouquets. Often she’d leave…
From BH Publishing Group: Raised among the Amish of Indiana, 18-year-old Marianna Sommer plans to get baptized into the church, marry Aaron Zook, and set up life in the only community she has ever known. But when her older brother chooses the world’s path following his rumschpringe, and a younger sibling begins showing interest in…