In the spring of 2019, we began looking for a home to purchase. We looked ALL over. We saw properties that were huge houses on small lots – not for us. We saw huge properties with nice houses, but inside town limits that did not even allow homeowners to have chickens – not for us.… Read More We bought a farm
It has been five years since I wrote on this blog. A LOT has happened, but I stopped blogging when we had some things to work out. We were foster parents, and not all kids have happy stories that can be blogged about – even with pseudonyms. The raccoons got into the chicken run one… Read More Return to blogging
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?I’ve been thinking about this blog post for months, the problem is, every time I start to write it, another friend chooses to forward face their child and I don’t want them to think I wrote it because of them. Here’s the thing: if this post convicts you, maybe you’re feeling…
I live in a very poor area. Most of the people around me are of an age where we would expect them to be retired, and many others are living on disability payments after years of working in the lumber industry. It’s an area of small houses, low rent apartments, and lots of social service… Read More I don’t have the clothing to be poor
It would work with the dislike of rectangles that I espouse in this blog very well! http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/12/tech/mci-runcible-smartphone/index.html What would your world look like if you removed the rectangles from it and replaced them with circles? Or if you quit surrounding things with borders at all? Would you accomplish more if there were no lines in… Read More I would love to have a circular smartphone
You are more precious than rubies. I am reading a new book that I’ve wanted to read for awhile now: A Year of Biblical Womanhood by Rachel Held Evans. I am enjoying it immensely. I avoided it for a while after hearing about it, because I expected a self-righteous written lecture about how to obey… Read More How about a resolution to Be Yourself? (a.k.a. – a Proverbs 31 post)
Do you use the YouVersion Bible app? They are offering a challenge to their subscribers. Sign up for (and tweet about) one of their 21-day Bible reading plans, and you might win one of their several high-tech prizes. Read more here: http://blog.youversion.com/2014/12/21-day-new-year-challenge/ I signed up to read through Ephesians. What will you choose to read?… Read More The YouVersion Bible app is offering a challenge…
I have a new favorite movie: Boxtrolls! It has everything – cute characters, awesome scenery, witty dialogue, good music, good lessons that aren’t preachy, and a happy ending. And cheese – lots of cheese! The after-credit scene is awesome. I took our 3 year old to see Boxtrolls four times, and even got my husband… Read More Movie recommendation: Boxtrolls
Pretty much any adult knows that in the workplace, WHO you work with can make all the difference. Some workers are good at their jobs, some aren’t. Some workers have good attitudes, and some do not. Some are encouraging, some are defeating. And so on. It’s that way in foster care, too. We took the… Read More New kids + new workers = better experience
It has been a long time since I posted, and with good reason. The boys are gone. We almost quit foster parenting. Some types of trauma can not be healed in a family foster home, and that is hard to admit when you are the foster home in question. Some types of trauma do not… Read More Yes, No, Maybe So
Ranting About Rectangles 