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April 2022

April has been a wonderful and busy month.  I love April.  Flowers start to bloom, Brad starts planting our gardens, school is almost over, the weather is warming up...all the good stuff.   Every spring we take a family hike up to the Lighthouse in Palo Duro Canyon.  The first year we did this, Katy Jane had to be carried part of the way and the boys needed our help too.  Every year they are more capable.  This year they left us behind for the entire hike. There won't be many more Easter's where the kids will care about dying Easter eggs or participate in Easter egg hunts.  I'm enjoying every second of it while I can. We had Easter Sunday with my family.  There is nothing better than sitting in church together.                                                                   ...
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It's been awhile...

I used to post every single night and somehow its been 2 years since my last post.  A lot has happened in our lives in 2 year.   After much prayer and consideration we decided to put the kids in public school.  There were a lot of things that went into this decision and we did not take it lightly.  It was not because I was tired of homeschooling them.  On the contrary I miss my time with them very much.  There have been good and bad things about public school.  Some of the good things have been the precious teachers the Lord brought into their lives.  They have poured into our kid's lives and filled in gaps that I didn't know were there.  These sweet ladies are prayed for daily and we are so thankful for them. Brad and I decided to pursue our Real Estate dreams and both got our licences in September 2021.  We signed on with Horton Neely Real Estate .  What a great team we have!   This market is crazy but we are thankf...

Christmas 2019

I guess to get caught up for over a year of slacking, I'll start at Christmas and work back.  All of our family was in town for Christmas which is a greater joy than anything else.  I treasure our time together.  We all attended church on Sunday.  That is one of my very favorite things.  There really is nothing like having every member of my family sitting on the pew together.  We have a new family member this year!  Wesley (far right) is Madison's husband of 6 months.  The kids are head over heels in love with him too. Every year my Dad used to get out his Santa hat at Christmas and wear it.  In honor of his wonderful sense of humor and sense of fun, we've started taking a picture with all of us wearing a Santa hat.  Mom is wearing his hat in this picture.  Oh how we miss him and his presence...every second of every day. And the other tradition we started last year is the Epic Nerf Gun Battle.  Last year my boys got n...

Box Day 2018

"Box Day" is like a homeschoolers Christmas.  It is the day when all of the new curriculum arrives and we get to open it up and see what exciting, wonderful things we get to learn this school year.  That day was today!!!  We basically attacked the poor FedEx guy when he pulled up.  We start school Monday and we are all so excited!

Dad's Birthday

Daddy would've been 74 on August 25, 2018.  We commemorated the day by planting a tree for him and having his favorite meal.

Catching Up

Since I posted last, we had a sad last Christmas with Daddy, moved into a new home, lost my precious Daddy, lost my aunt, had cancer scares, a major wreck, a wonderful summer vacation, lost fair-weather friends, experienced deepened friendships, celebrated my grandmother's 100th birthday, and welcomed a new sweet puppy into our lives.  Through it all the grief we've experienced has been overwhelming and suffocating and almost more than we can stand.  I wish I could say that I had handled Daddy's passing graciously and that it was a faith-strengthening experience but I didn't, and it wasn't.  It has been the hardest thing I've ever gone through.  It is now 5 months later and there are days when I feel like I might just survive this and other days when I know for sure I won't.  I WILL trust the Lord through this process though.  I have to. What other choice is there? I just miss him and it hangs a dark cloud over every day.  If I don't keep my mind busy,...