by Robin | Jan 14, 2008 | Faith, Family, Personal
Continuing the thoughts from the night we spent in prison…. Reality Check, part one, Reality Check, part two “Then these righteous ones will reply, ‘Lord, when did we ever see you hungry and feed you? Or thirsty and give you something to drink? Or a...
by Robin | Jan 11, 2008 | Faith, Family, Kids, Personal
{Continued from Reality Check || Thoughts From Our Night in Prison} When presented opportunity to serve a Christmas dinner to inmates at a mid-level security prison, my immediate thought was “of course”. When my father-in-law asked for our children...
by Robin | Jan 9, 2008 | Family, Kids, Personal, Photos, Wordless Wednesday
December, 2007, our back yard. Please meet Old Red, Blackie and Little Red, taking a little break from a thousand hours of raking. I found out in a round-about way my children had named our rakes, discovered when they were...
by Robin | Jan 7, 2008 | Advice, Family, Marriage, Mom stuff, Personal
Giving birth changes you in ways expected and in ways never imagined. Cliches from your own childhood–words you swore to yourself you’d never say–echo for a season in the hollows of memory, eventually finding voice as they pass through your own lips...
by Robin | Jan 6, 2008 | Family, Favorite things, Fun Mondays, Lionhead rabbits, Personal, Pets, Photos
Callie ~ who came to us as a scrawny little rescue kitty :). Aussie ~ the Australian Shepherd, skittish as the day is long… Pepper ~ the "bigger" lionhead rabbit whose mane is graying and growing already… Pippin ~ the babiest of them all. Please...
by Robin | Jan 5, 2008 | Family, Favorite things, Kids, Mom stuff, Personal, Photos
"N e w Y e a r ‘ s R e s o l u t i o n s" in my mind’s ear hears that phrase spoken s l o w l y and voiced authoritatively by James Earl Jones. Try thinking it again, but this time with him saying it, and you’ll know what I...