We are closing up laptops, taking midnight drives to look at all the lights, sitting by the fire with Christmas letters and a juicy book, singing carols around the tree with friends and family (who entertain my poor piano skills ), and thanking God for every wonderful promise and blessing He has given. Brian and [...]

I’ve been working through the last couple years of photos in an attempt to make some photo books.  Attempt is the key word.   Thanks to Brian’s amazing organization of our 250K plus images, this task is looking super possible!  (Shout out to my awesome husband!)  But seriously, where does time go?  How fast our [...]

Today is going to be special for us.  I’m not sure how, but I’m going to look for it in small things–while being open to big things too.  I mean, it’s 11-11-11 today!  The date alone is pretty crazy and fun!  Right?! We are getting things prepped for our Dallas CONFIDENCE Workshop this weekend with [...]

Her words of wisdom give me comfort as I sit in my office in aisle 11, seat D. Fay had been with us for 48 hours to observe all the different places that energy unnecessary leaked in our home, our family culture.  After Brian and I put the kids to be we talked late into [...]

Amit Gupta is an AWESOME GUY, and he needs our help.  We’ve got FORTY Days to spread the word and sign up as many donors as possible. For those of you who love Photojojo’s creative DIY photo projects, well, Amit is the founder.  That’s one example of how great he is.  When our instructional DVD [...]

I found my dad in the dark.  He sat in his wheelchair, facing the window.  The shade was pulled. When I opened the door, the light from the hallway illuminated his profile.  Beads of sweat multiplied on his forehead, running down the side of his face.  He was in so much pain that even the [...]

A Fall of Sustaining Energies

(warning: today is a long one, get that cup of tea ) There is a new word that is swirling in my head and heart these last few months.  The word is Sustaining. Sustaining.  I’ve thought about this word on a large scale when it comes to our environment and culture, but I’ve never spent [...]

Wandered into the Garden…

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There are three sentences you will NEVER, EVER hear me say again.  They are; “Wait Brian! We could sale that! Don’t throw it away!” The middle sentence mocks me now.  “We could sale that!”  BWAH! HA! HA! HA!!!!!  Yes, we could sale it…for a whopping TWENTY FIVE cents!  And when the weekend is all said [...]

Wednesday is often our day to feature an Amazing Mom–a woman who is real and going after life with courage and kids in tow.  Today, I’ve got one of the most AMAZING moms ever.  My grandma! I had the most wonderful lunch with my grandma last week.  Just the two of us.  She turned eighty [...]