Picture Perfect Love: Dating Advice for my Daughters
Love’s Portrait God is love (1 John 4:8). To understand love we must first know God, and we must always have this fact, that God is love, in the forefront…
Follow the Fruit: Kids, Creeds, and Catholics
I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children -- Matt 11:25 If…
Back to School, and all that…
Whew. Third day of the new school year down. By the end of the week I think we'll have at least the morning routine nailed. With driving help from two…
Water Park Fun
Next week we will be back to school for 6 of the kids (and back to work for Megan, who is teaching at two different schools). Thus it seemed good…
July is Party Time!
July is a big month for birthdays at our place - Megan, Jordan and Ruben are all celebrated this month. Yesterday we had the party for our newly minted 9-and-1…
A Walk in the Green
Since several of our kids are adults now, it is a rare thing when the whole clan of 13 gets to go on an adventure together. Saturday was one of…
A Ruben Retrospective
One year ago today, a beautiful baby boy named Ruben was born. His 5.5 weeks premature lungs were not ready for the world yet, and he remained in NICU for…
Baby Love
Going through my old posts and photos I found a set of pics I took of Ruben around March that are just too sweet. That stage where babies have discovered…
A Birthday Road Trip
My three girls, Laurent, Megan and Geneva, and two of their cousins, Emma and Abi Holston, took a road trip through California to celebrate Megan's 21st birthday, and It.Was.Epic. They had…
A Meager Reality
What it is Like to be Poor in America Today in America, there are several societal forces that work to keep the poor fairly hidden from the rest of us.…