I have a dream

not the MLK kind, although what a dream to have, but honestly, racial injustice just isn’t much of an issue at our home, no, my dream is more of the type…beautiful day happy smiling children, all holding hands, laughing and singing…and most of all hugging and kissing mommy while lavishing i love you’s on her…that isn’t too [...]

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missed

we missed rockin church today…we missed church and then we also “MISSED” church like really missed it, missed being there…missed the worship…even the oldest monster was sad that we missed church, we spent the better part of the weekend out of state with family…at one point we thought my grandmother was on her last breath, [...]

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treasures.

the adoption community is tight…those of us who have done it have a bond, something that is hard to explain to those who haven’t experienced the joy of adopting, as moms of any kind we have a bond…an understanding of such that we are really not our own, our hearts belong to little beings that [...]

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please pray

i am using my little slice of the world to ask you to please pray for a dear brother and sister in Christ…although we have only briefly met, my heart is breaking as a mom’s would break for Mary Beth Chapman and Stephen Curtis Chapman and their family on the loss of precious Maria (5) [...]

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take another little piece of my heart

now baby…that song has been on my mind all morning..last night second monster graduated from preschool…he and his sister monsters go to preschool at rockin church, it is where we first fell in love with the people there…they truly model a Christ like love…they have been there for 3 years now…amazing how time flies….when second and [...]

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visions

i could almost see it…into the future…Writer and Sir Mix Alot worked together yesterday..not on a new masterpiece, no, on a basketball goal for the monsters…when others have a good year they buy bling and fancy cars…not Writer, he loves his old car and i love that about him, nope, what he buys is a [...]

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16 years ago

it was a hot spring day, really hot…or maybe it was all the tulle..but i remember it being hot…16 years ago today i became Mrs. Writer. hard to believe…it has gone so fast…so much fun. we are the lucky ones, we married quickly, no money, no honeymoon…we didn’t care, not one bit. The church was [...]

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sandwich bags

there are so many problems in the world…so today i am humble, ashamed…by myself…got up this morning in the normal rush of things…getting oldest monster ready for school at 6am…prissy is already awake and shortly after her it was baby monster…why do they have to get up so early i am thinking to myself…thankfully, mercifully [...]

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monsters

sometimes they are just that….monsters…and NOT the cute kind… not the mean kind…not the scary kind that haunts your sleep, although at any given time during the night one of them could wake up and interrupt my sleep…no, today they are the mischevious type of monster, the kind that wrecks havoc thru your house and then stands back [...]

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poor Writer….

Writer is a good man…a very, very good man…so to think that he is the black sheep in the family is almost humorous…he is the traitor…the one to leave the family farm…refusing to build our life home on our alloted 5 acres…he would die there…wilt. he spent all of his childhood and youth planning his [...]

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