I don’t think there is a person alive that enjoys being asked or told to wait. Especially Americans seems to struggle with waiting. We treat “wait” as a 4-letter swear word. We like instant gratification and view waiting as an unwelcome interruption. Waiting in a line at the grocery store, in the drive-thru at a […]
I, Julia Esther, take you Christopher Lee, to be my wedded husband. To have always and to hold tightly, from this day for all eternity; through house remodels and home improvement store shopping, through two miscarriages and through four healthy births, through parenting success and homeschool failures, through family blessings and ministry hurts, through volatile […]
Every year there is some trepidation and some excitement when it comes to the production of our Christmas letter. Even though I want to update friends and family about our year, I also am at the point in the year when I am feeling tired and not highly motivated for extra things. I do use […]
If my husband ever had to worry about another man in my life. His name would be Joe and he is in the grocery business! I was able to go to the Cities overnight two weeks ago to shop with my sister while she was training for a new job. We went all over the […]
When I think of hospitality, traditionally I have viewed it as making time to invite family and friends over for meals. Preferably in a random spontaneous manner that does not include holidays or birthdays. I viewed it as effort being made on my part to include friends and family into my daily life and routine. […]
It has been almost two months since I submitted my last homework assignment to Rasmussen College online, and it has been 3.5 months since I posted about my bout of senioritis. I hesitated to celebrate this accomplishment until I received this piece of paper in the mail! Not that I thought I had not succeeded […]
What was supposed to be a short trip to Blue Earth on July 20, 2017, for some camp supplies took a different turn when my vehicle broke down on the side of the road. The kids and I watched many trucks drive by as I was calling Christopher who was at an appointment in Mankato, […]
19 years single and 19 years married. I will leave all of you to do the math on my actual age. Christopher and I have joked about the time when it would be even up…hard to believe that is now! Although it seems like yesterday, it also seems like a lifetime ago. How did we […]
“Remember” is a word that is glibly tossed around in common conversation with family and friends. “Remember” when we did that one thing that one time, or “remember” that pie, or “remember” that moment that I did something I wish I could forget. Like many words that we use daily, we often don’t think about […]