• Cosplay {All Hallows Eve Edition}

    Cosplay {All Hallows Eve Edition}

    With birthday season officially over in our household, I’ve set my sights squarely on Halloween. I know, I know… it isn’t even fall yet! I don’t care. Handsome Husband is not really a fan of this particular holiday (Which I speculate might have something to do with the scarring Halloween incident of 1983, wherein a full-grown man clad in…

  • Gleanings From Interrupted

    Gleanings From Interrupted

    I would love to be a real-life missionary; to pack up family and relocate to some obscure, remote overseas locale. I would live off the land, rough it, and pour my heart out in service to the Lord. Handsome Husband and I once sold all our belongings, vacated our beautiful home, and began an arduous immigration process…

  • Simple Pleasures

    Simple Pleasures

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    In no particular order: Weekends. Saturday, Sunday. Husband home. Nothing on the calendar. Hot coffee with freshly whipped cream. (It has been precisely twelve days since my last Starbucks… don’t I get a key-chain, or something?) Small town parades. Horses and marching bands. Meandering bike rides. Drive-in movie theaters. Fixing a salad in the backyard. A…

  • Things That Make Me Go Hmmm

    Things That Make Me Go Hmmm

    So much life has happened in the four months since we first laid eyes on our precious Little Man. Four months ago, yesterday. Though we carefully washed and tucked away the clothing he arrived in on that memorable day, we placed his well-worn shoes in his toy box. Every few weeks he unearths one or…

  • Summer Lovin’

    Summer Lovin’

    Living in Montana- where nine months of the year everything is tucked in snug under a thick blanket of snow– we make the most of our summers. Summer is a much anticipated season to relish, and we are blessed to have so many opportunities for adventure within a twenty minute radius of our suburban home. Even if we don’t…

  • B-A-N-A-N-A-S

    B-A-N-A-N-A-S

    In China, everyone turns a year older during Chinese New Year, not on their actual birth date. But Little Man is two today. Twenty-four months ago another woman laboriously welcomed him into the world. I can only imagine the raw sting this anniversary brings her, each year. Of course she remembers. Surely she must ponder his health and whereabouts……

  • Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

    Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

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    Jen Hatmaker’s recent revision of Interrupted: When Jesus Wrecks Your Comfortable Christianity is rocking my world, y’all. (And leaving me speaking like a Texan.) Honestly… just read it. Though I only have one copy to give away, the rest of you all can/should/must order your copy here for 20% off. TROPHIES FOR EVERYONE! Without further ado,…

  • The Long and Winding Road

    The Long and Winding Road

    Yesterday my crazy fam embarked upon yet another great Montana[Wyoming] adventure: The Beartooth Mountain Pass. After an abbreviated jaunt through the northern margins of Jellystone, we pushed on through to the treacherous and terrifying cliff-side highway. Open just a few short months of each year, this long and winding road is an exhilarating experience, to say the…

  • Interrupted Giveaway

    Interrupted Giveaway

    As mentioned in my last blog post, I’m elated to be reviewing an advanced digital copy of author/speaker/activist Jen Hatmaker’s remix to an old work, Interrupted (When Jesus Wrecks Your Comfortable Christianity). I dug into my copy yesterday, and let me tell you: This is good stuff. Inspiring, compelling stuff. Don’t read it unless you’re prepared to get fired up.…