Heart Languages
Working in admissions, one of the things I love most is getting to engage with families as they come visit our school. When we tour families around our campus, we’re not only sharing about our school’s culture, academics, fine arts and athletic programs, but we’re...
Practicing Gratitude 7.7.23
Three weeks in June with this one - she is remarkable. Easy to be with, and yet pushes me to obedience This little Cheer Captain kicking off the summer with SCS Cheer camp. Here comes senior year Getting to be married to this guy. Full of joy and service Whew a month...
Ruby Girl
Ruby girl, we are just so surprised that you’re gone. You didn’t give us any warning, and that high-voltage personality of yours has left a huge vacuum in our home and in our hearts. We’ve been nursing Cross through some old-age symptoms lately but you hadn’t shown...
Gravel Paths
Each step elicits a crunch as my feet steady the slightly shifting gravel under my sneakers. Each step on this wooded, gravel path across from our home. Like opening an old perfume bottle, spring and summer walks usher in the memories of my college summers at Kanakuk,...
Practicing Gratitude 6.02.23
GORGEOUS weather, oh my goodness. Cool front, just lovely Sweetest grad party last weekend - Just amazing people from all facets of our life, reminded me how many neat kids we know. Essie and Basden had so much fun, we all did. Helped lift my heart to remember how...
Practicing Gratitude 5.20.23
God’s sovereign control is the guarantee that you will have everything he has promised you. God is involved in every detail of our lives, and he is near. Max's steady encouragement. Can I ready this every day please. Essie taking Liv's senior pics That the Holy Spirit...
Practicing Gratitude 4.30.23
Prom season! So fun AND it's done 🙂 Just the most amazing weekend in Georgia for with Adeline’s wedding - staying with Trey and Amy and their fabulous kiddos, time with Hills, Moffatts, Lawrences, Brogdons and many more Trey has always been my hero Charlotte is...
What I Cannot Do
**In light of Mother's day (and Father's day) around the corner, I'm reposting this from a few years ago. It's a a lesson I need to keep learning, still need to be reminded of. If I could give one gift to myself and to friends in the trenches of parenting, it would be...
Fort Worth Zoo by Day… and by Night
Feeling extra proud to live in this city. Extra proud and extra grateful. Corbin and I got to spend ALL of Saturday at the zoo. And with this fabulous weather, there was no better place to be. Never mind that all of DFW also decided to spend the gorgeous April day...
Practicing Gratitude 4.15.23
Easter in Auburn! Our whole family and lots of friends Our fam text thread as we boarded the plane for Auburn - had me in stitches All of our health - just incredible - everyone healthy, lots of hope and vision for what’s ahead Basden Joy. She really is JOY. I have...
Practicing Gratitude 4.7.23
- Auburn Young Life placement - Essie's friends getting baptized, and her photos - ACC college retreat at Sharptop Cove, Auburn date parties, all the fun . . - Max's wisdom - Take me out to the ballgame - These two - Surprising Jessica for her 50th birthday weekend...
And She Came Home More Beautiful
“She’s going to come home more beautiful.” Corbin and I agreed on this, and that her friends would as well. Essie is home from South Africa. The twelve days to me felt like a month. I was not scared for her safety, wasn’t even nervous about her being so far. I was...
Practicing Gratitude 3.24.23
Auburn weekend with Joy and Hud, seeing their lives in 3D. Mostly good and some hard, and continued evidence that You care for them when we are so far away ~ even better than we would anyway So many special people in Auburn who impact their lives . Permanent...
Papa ~ the gift that just keeps giving
We almost lost Papa in the spring of '99. Papa and Mama (who were actually not yet Papa and Mama, aka Charles and Jamie) took our family of newly grown, newly married kids to the Greek Islands. Immediately after we arrived in Athens and boarded our cruise ship,...
Practicing Gratitude 3.12.23
Essie's travels to Dubai, then to Durbin, eventually to Port Shepstone, South Africa with SCS minimester . . Joy in Kauai with Sarah and the Niccore fam this week Oh my goodness LOOK WHO is in Kauai! NICKMO Hud and crew - road trip to Angel Fire and back to...
Practicing Gratitude 3.4.23
Mystery Dinner #4 . . . . Sundays This morning’s walk, cool but not cold, reminders of your truth as I walk - your grace is sufficient, WHO you are, you will help me wait, you are the Vine and keeping me tucked in, you will fight for us while we keep silent, you are...
Practicing Gratitude 2.25.23
Basden at Orange Beach for the weekend with seven Auburn friends . . . In-town sleepover at Sanders with Wolfes. Krista's over-the-top hospitality, deep talks and deep laughter. Decades-old friends providing decades-old comfort and friendship. And it was susch a fun...
Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business.
“Is it our business to pry into what may happen tomorrow? It is a difficult and painful exercise which saps the strength and uses up the time given us today. Once we give ourselves up to God, shall we attempt to get hold of what never belonged to us - tomorrow? Our...
Practicing Gratitude 2.17.23
This popping up on my phone. We knew even then she was all Joy Valentines day at SCS - Christina, Kendra, Kelly, Brooke... I don't even know who all was exactly responsible for making our teachers and staff feel the love, but it is a lot of work and really precious....
Practicing Gratitude 2.11.23
- Bran's family birthday dinner- happy 23rd! - Paul Tripp - "You don’t have to be anxious about the future. A God of grace has invaded your life, and he always completes what he starts." "It’s hard to look at the future and feel secure, because the future is simply...