As sit on this last day of 2013 trying to allow my body to overcome whatever bug it is currently fighting and enjoy reading other people’s reflections of their year, I thought I’d try the same. To say this year has been full of changes is a gross understatement. This year I have: become a …
We celebrated Christmas morning this Saturday with our girls and it was a wonderful time of excitement and fun, but in order to enjoy this time together, Sam and I had to wait our turn. It’s hard, especially during the holidays, to juggle schedules and time when you are sharing kids. You have to be …
It’s been a long time since I’ve been on my second cup of coffee at 7:30 am. It’s been since my teaching days, but as my alarm went off this morning at 5:00, I was excited. I am encountering fewer and fewer people who can say that their jobs are truly worth waking up in …
I have never been much of a cook or a baker. I found my speciality is appetizers…you know the kind that take three ingredients and at tops 10 minutes to make? That was more my speed. But during Christmas and around the holidays, I find that I can slow down enough to not have a …
Santa brought the pups (and their running buddy!) a new splitter leash. The leash goes around my waist and then the pups share one leash so that they aren’t dragging me in two different directions. We tried it out this morning and it was so funny to watch Willie and Waylon’s face as they tried …
There aren’t words to express how incredibly blessed I am this Christmas to be a new wife, a new mom, a new Reverend. There have been few times in my life that I have felt that I am exactly where I am supposed to be and doing what I was created to do, but tonight …
This Christmas, Sam and I are celebrating with two new members of our family: Willie and Waylon. As we have both watched the ads for adopting puppies, we have almost convinced ourselves that we could take on another one . . . almost : ) I was just looking at the Barnes and Noble list …
The second chapter in Luke, which is often used as a lectionary passage during this Advent season tells the story of Nary being told by the angels that she was to give birth to the Son of God. After this happens and she has the child, Mary and Joseph are visited by shepherds. We don’t …
Twas the Night before Ordination, and all through the house, not a creature was sitting, not even a… Ok, that’s not true. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that this night is full of restlessness and wrestling because it is so much like the first night I knew without a doubt that I had to …
When we were young, my grandfather was the chaplain at a retirement home and so there were many Sunday lunches shared in the cafeteria and many people whose rooms or tables we stopped by as the grandchildren of the chaplain. What I didn’t know at the time is those Sunday afternoons were part of my …
