kendal privette - a spacious place

a daughter for me!!! last night you slept in the loft your twin-bed-that-papa-made arm’s length from your brother bu...

feeling thankful this morning and isn't this basic to the walk? i will give  thanks  to you,  Lord ,  with all my heart;  i w...

my second son, jack and his cousin, zoe time, that mercurial enemy, is indifferent to our toddlers' adorability* the additional ...

and this is a hard goodbye, leaving my first at a hotel i have to be in room 806 at 4:00 to depart for basic training he'l...

dear sons, it's august now and you're both freshmen and i want to give you a be-sure-to-brush-your-teeth-every-day kind of ...

biblical kings are chronicled in the old testament - old king out new king in his age at coronation how long he reigned and.... his...

a thankful list is in order this morning.... for jack's fever coming down for chris and team safely in australia for hank's mu...

i've packed his last lunch, this boy who brought music to our home i've shouted my last,  here we go, hank at major larry j. ba...

  it's five-minute-friday and the prompt is remember so i attempted to conjure something thought-provoking poign...

(my hank is in gold) photo credit the prompt is cherish and i guess i could describe the fire in the fireplace sunrise-over-snowscap...

my girl, the one i mentor click here to check out her new blog:) i sat at table with four teens last night ( a walt-whitman-miracle )...

it's winter and the friday night lights are dark the stadiums empty it's winter and the mats are rolled out across the gym fl...

writing for five minutes on thank you - like the men in white asked the disciples why do you stand looking i heard a  months-ago...

there's a gentle rain tapping the roof it's the only sound and it's after a college visit with older son on saturday and...

photo credit of course i didn't have my camera with me and therefore have no photo of hank singing inside the church.... my laund...

i didn't cry when he came off the practice field to line up with us, this seventeen-year-old guitar-playing athlete i didn't...

these boys? they're mine sure, they leave dirty socks on the floor and kind of never put away clean clothes and, yeah, they leave...

this hint this family missions experience has legs.... our dominican experience will find us teaching visiting working in a library...

writing for five minutes on connection the second day of school has arrived in its dark, tired way but i perk up for lunch-packin...

my dog, moses, has hurt my feelings. he's been trekking down the mountain to my brother-in-law's house to hang out with their dog ...