Despite the lengthy catching up I need to do that has been hanging over me all year, I want to try and dust off the rust accumulating on these fingers and stretch the creative muscles in my brain that, as... Read more →

July was an amazing month. With every fiber in me, I am savoring the sweet memories we made as a family, and it was also personally momentous as it was the last month of Cliff and Christine’s sabbatical! We were... Read more →

Nothing like entering an official summer month with a morning bike ride and walk in your pajamas. I’d only been away from home for 24 hours…the trip to El Paso was a whirlwind: there on Friday and back again Saturday.... Read more →

I’m trying ever so hard to get caught up with these blogs. There are other things I’d like to start writing about, but in my own quirky way, I can’t break loose until I’m caught up with these monthly posts.... Read more →

April is by far one of my most favorite months. It’s a happy, colorful spring month where everything is fresh and new. It’s also my birthday month. That always helps a month be a stand-out month. I’m not kidding when... Read more →

I’ve worked on this post hit or miss for the past 6 weeks, with all hopes of finishing it while in Colorado a couple of weeks ago. And then our computer died. And thankfully it came back to life after... Read more →

This was the view from the lake house the Vestry and Missions Team retreated at in January and the first weekend of February. It was actually nice enough to sit outside for a while until we were all overtaken by... Read more →

What happened in January, you ask? We turned the calendar over to a new year. Brennan turned five. Matt turned *&(*&*. I went on three church-related retreats. And all the beautiful mess of life in between. The beginning of January... Read more →

December! Slowly but surely, I will catch up. The first Wednesday of December, I took the kids downtown to the most awesome bookstore, “Book People” for story time. The story time ended up being so-so, but we sure had fun... Read more →

Today (Friday) is our fourth “snow” day in 2 weeks. As the city was expecting “one-onehundreth of an inch” of wintry mix in freezing temperatures, the city of Austin came to a standstill. Here in the northern outskirts of the... Read more →