Spiritual Growth

And his kingdom shall have no end

In December of 2012 (yup, quite a long time ago) a good friend of mine whom I “met” online but also have had the great pleasure of spending time with in-person approached me about taking a line Nicene Creed and explaining what it meant to me over on her website as a part of aRead the whole post >>

What will they remember?

Each Advent season we head out to a local Christmas tree farm in search of the perfect tree. I am honestly okay with a Charlie Brown tree, but my detail-oriented husband is a perfectionist about things of which I am not and always has a hard time selecting the tree. The kids show him theirRead the whole post >>

O Come All Ye Faithful (and all ye faithless, too)

When the Nativity figures aren’t scattered throughout our house, I usually find that one of my children has set them up something like this. Now if it were up to (anal) me, the people and myriad animals would be set up in a more orderly fashion and spread out a bit more, but there’sRead the whole post >>

My first-world problems and me

I had a conversation with a fellow mom not too long ago that began with us joking about how it never fails that our sweet children mutate into screaming, clingy, little beasties the moment we pick up the phone. At first, this mom was laughing as she shared a recent anecdote about a child throwingRead the whole post >>

Free love*

*Alternately titled: Free Therapy for Kate Wicker The dreaded running injury I went on and and on about here has turned out to not be quite as devastating as I thought. I have a tendency to ruminate and worry before I even know how badly things really are, and scouring online forums doesn’t help sinceRead the whole post >>