We Do What We Have to Do, Even Solo Vacations
Warning: This is a rant. I am indulging because it will make me feel better. Yes, I realize that this is selfish behavior. Feel free not to continue reading.
Warning: This is a rant. I am indulging because it will make me feel better. Yes, I realize that this is selfish behavior. Feel free not to continue reading.
“Children are a heritage from the LORD, offspring a reward from him.” (Psalm 127:3) A few weeks ago, my family headed out for a mini-vacation at a resort town a few hours from home. It had been almost a year since we’d had any kind of a getaway, thanks to COVID-19. Our hotel had a…
Last week, I wrote about The Great Unknown, that place of waiting we all have to walk through in some seasons, when we have no idea what’s coming next. Ironically, we got an answer later that day – a temporary answer, anyway. E has been granted a full-time paid internship for the summer. The kind…
This is our second Christmas since moving from Michigan to Virginia, and we’re heading back to Michigan for Christmas a second time. I’ll be honest: while I’m looking forward to visiting with family and friends, to Christmas Eve Curry Dinner, to my annual trip to Frankenmuth with my mom, to watching L snuggle with aunts,…
I’m always seeing pictures of other families’ playrooms on Instagram and Pinterest. Pretty playrooms, everything arranged just so, in order to keep the inevitable toy mess separate from the rest of the house. I always said my kids would have to have a playroom or would be required to keep their toys contained in their…
The end of summer is always bittersweet, but the reasons are a bit different this year. In the past, summer ending meant mourning the loss of endless Lake Michigan beach days, the end of camping season, no more trips to Silver Lake to play on the sand dunes, no more Saturday mornings at the farmers’…
We were driving home from church in the pouring rain, talking about what we were going to do on such a miserable day. E, who was riding shotgun, pointed at the sign for the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum’s extension campus as we passed it. “Sometime, we ought to go there,” he said. “Well, why…