strawberry fields for ginny

Ginny has now gone through the basic veggies. carrots, sweet potatoes, green peas, squash, green beans all were accepted without a fuss. She is ready to graduate to fruit next week.  But there is one fruit we will not be starting any time soon: strawberries. Because I don’t want this to happen to Ginny like [...]

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morning funnies

My brother doesn’t do mornings. Frankly neither do I.  Or at least I wouldn’t if I didn’t have to in order to make a living in the real world. *sigh*  Most mornings I would love to have a cup of tea delivered to me, wrap up in a blanket, sit on the porch, read a [...]

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ginny meets uncle steve

it still seems weird to me to spell his name that way. To me he is my little brother Stephen. But now that he is “all growed up” he wants to be Steve. Actually he prefers Foster, but that’s a whole ‘nother story for another day. Anyway, he’s been sick off and on for a [...]

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Packing a lifetime into two days

How do you pack a lifetime worth of memories into two days? You get very little rest and you come to work tired on Monday. I am seriously sleepy today. We went to Kansas to see Mel & Steve again this weekend. We really adore these two and want to spend as much time with [...]

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gratitude (a sigh of relief)

Ginny is staying put for now. That is what I am profoundly grateful for this week. At only 31 weeks and a day old it was still too early for Ginny to consider being born yet, but for some reason she wanted to have an argument about it. She insisted that she really did want [...]

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I am so blessed

Martin and I were reading a devotional on grief. One of the questions we were supposed to think about was of the “record your feelings from a time when you lost someone dear to you” order. And that’s when it occurred to me: I’ve never had someone I’m really really close to die. I’ve never [...]

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