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I love Christmas. (I know it’s April, but bear with me!) I am usually ready to start decorating the house in October- as soon as the first flash of cold breeze hits.  My husband has a hard and fast rule that we don’t decorate until after Thanksgiving, and since I need his muscles to drag […]

I am not a Karen. I just wanted to make that clear before I share my story. Knowing that I was going to have a few medical expenses this year, I put money away in a health care spending account. If you don’t know what that is, it’s like having an account that you can […]

My kids had fall break last week, and we had the chance to get out in nature for a few days.  We spent an afternoon hiking in a national park.  It was great weather to be outside- slightly overcast with a cool breeze.  We had another family with us and our kids enjoyed exploring the […]

Last year, my family and I had the opportunity to go on an RV trip.  It was quite an experience.  We were fortunate to go with another family who were well versed in the art of RVing.  They basically planned everything out, and we just tagged along. We rented a rather large RV to accommodate […]

One of the prayers that I pray over my kids is that God would reveal himself to them in a very real way.  It’s the only way to seal all of the ‘Christian’ things we do- going to church, serving, reading the Bible, family prayer.  If we do all of those things, but they never […]

On our recent family vacation, we had the opportunity to go to a water park. I knew that the resort had this feature, but I hadn’t been able to view any pictures of it on their website.  I had very low expectations and was pleasantly surprised when we walked up and saw 4 huge water […]

Last week, we traveled down to Mexico with some of our friends.  After a long day of traveling, we finally made it to our resort.  We were starving and headed to the first restaurant on the property that we could find.  The place that we chose was next to the pool and wide open.  The […]

Last week, I met a friend for lunch.  We ordered our food and sat down to catch up.  She’s one of these friends where  we just pick right up where we left off, no matter how long time has passed by. Life usually only lets us see each other every few months, so we jumped […]

My husband and I recently finished a television series called “Kim’s Convenience”.  It’s the story of a Korean family that immigrated to Canada.  They run a convenience store and are very active in their Korean Christian church.  They have a son and daughter, and over the few seasons, it depicts the challenges of raising a […]

My word for the year 2022 was contend.  And contend I did. I am thankful that I was hearing God enough at the beginning of the year to know what was coming, because there were definitely times during the year that I did not hear His voice at all.   I will spare you the gritty […]