NOTE:  Here are  the pajamas we are eyeing this year .   *********************** We have a long-standing Christmas tradition in our fam...

Nearly six months ago to the day, Spencer walked out the door of the hospital jubilant that his days as a cancer patient were finally f...

There is no more helpless a feeling in life than to see someone you love so dearly in pain and suffering.  You can sit devotedly by their...

I oddly don't remember much at all about last Thanksgiving.   I recalled that it had been at our house and that some family came, but b...

Each Thanksgiving, we have an activity where each member of the family writes on a slip of paper the things they are grateful for at t...

There once was this lady who loved to blog.  She blogged in any season for no special reason.  She loved capturing moments and makin...

I am pleased to announce that Glen has signed a job offer to begin working at a local mid-size company the Monday after Thanksgiving.     W...

I remember on winter afternoons as a child, grabbing my fuzzy blanket and a book to read and curling up, blanket tented around my shoulder...

When Glen and I participated in the fitness challenge in 2010, we took the competition very seriously and ended making some serious long-te...

Truth be told, it's been a rather long, tiring week.  It's not that anything bad has happened... it's more that I'm ju...

With Glen at home a lot of the time lately while he looks for a new job,  we're trying to take advantage of some of the off-times betwe...

On Friday evening we heard for the first time about an emergency winter clothing drive that our church stake (a stake is roughly equivalen...