Keep Planting

Dear Lindsey,

New Year’s Day, 2012: It was unseasonably toasty as the record-warm winter reached Continue reading

Mom, I bet you canNOT do it

Dear Lindsey,

Potty Training toddlers was so fun! and not! all at the same time. I remember sticking strongly to a Bible verse: Romans 8:38 -“For I am persuaded that neither death nor Continue reading

Saved by Submission

“I am the leader of the house, and my kids need to know it! I can’t just keep allowing my kids to be affected by Continue reading

It’s not Where but Who

Dear Lindsey,

After Nate (12) looked at my photos on my iPad from last year’s trip to Bora Bora, he said, (conniving a trip for himself) “I think Dad’s next book should be: A week of Bora Bora“! Continue reading

“I’m glad I’m a Boy!”

Dear Lindsey,

I love when kids say cute things!

Still on vacation in Italy, somehow in the transition between hotels, we lost our bottle of hair conditioner. Christine(8) thought the hotel’s provided body wash was conditioner, Continue reading

IF I WERE IN YOUR COMFORT

Dear Lindsey,

Traveling from Tuscany, Italy to Oslo, Norway on Thursday was a fun lesson in latitude for all of us. The same sun shined on both, but the resulting temperature at the ground Continue reading