In mid-July, hubby and I started thinking that we needed a little mini-vacation. The past several months have been rough for a number of reasons, and we needed a little fun and a little downtime together. Around that same time,…
All summer, my boys have been begging to go to the water park. I've used this excuse or the other to push them off a bit, but I believe the time has come that I'm going to have to take…
Now that VBS is over, we're back to finding our new rhythm for the year. We started back to school at the start of July, so we've already been playing around with finding the right time for school. (It used…
We don't tend to watch a ton of TV these days. We got rid of our dish going on...gosh three years now? And where I thought I would miss it, I really don't. When we do want to watch something,…
Two weeks ago, we took a friend to the airport. This is not normally news because it's just kind of the thing that I think friends do. Need a ride to the airport? I'm not doing anything mission critical? Sure,…
This weekend, I loaded the boys and my sister in the car, and we wandered off to the western part of the state to see Swannanoa Palace. It's a lovely, if somewhat dilapidated, mansion from the 1920s, and it's open…
Today is my parents' 52nd anniversary. Every day I'm grateful for the example they have set and continue to set of what love looks like in the day-to-day trenches of reality. Even though I write romance, and I love everything…
Now that my book release is done, my spur-of-the-moment flash sale on Operation Romance is almost over (it's free through tomorrow if you haven't gotten it), and we've finished our required end-of-year testing for homeschooling, I feel like I can…
Today is my Mom's birthday and I thought I'd take a few minutes to wish her the happiest of birthdays publicly. My mom is an amazing woman. If you read book dedications, you may have noticed that the dedication of…
This past week, I've been reading, at the request of my eldest, the first book in his current favorite series. It's a Minecraft book. Given that he can talk about Minecraft from sun up to sun down, sitting down and…