Our Saturday night service fed all our senses. We partook of communion (taste, touch), worshipped with song (hearing), watched the Jeremy Camp song “This Man” with the clips of The Passion of the Christ (seeing, hearing). But smell? I admit, after hearing the service be billed as multi-sensory, I’d wondered what we’d be smelling. We […]
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T-shirt Wisdom
The kids’ school will be having pajama day soon during spirit week. However, my kids have been doing this crazy thing called “growing” and all their pajama bottoms had turned into stylish capris. All right for Andrea, but a fashion no-no for Joshua. So I ended up at JC Pennys jammie sale with a $10 […]
One Rose vs. One Dozen
What kind of a church has a senior pastor that looks like this?!? Try to look past the crazy Don King hair and the thick glasses…until you can see the heart pattern on his love-ly vest. He’s the host of the famous Oldywed Game. Cue the music. (For a more complete story about the game, […]
A Late Super Bowl
Every year we have a Super Bowl Party since we have a huge screen downstairs. (The projector actually shoots onto a flat wall.) Here’s my confession: it’s now more than a week after the big game and I still haven’t seen it. 16 adults and 20 children ran around during the party. Okay, mostly the […]
Mummy Dearest
If you have little ones around, you must check out this link: www.yummymummywraps.com My friend, Gillian, has started a business where she’s done the impossible: she’s made child carriers look chic!
Here a Tree, There a Tree
We live in a forest. By definition, that means there are a lot of trees around. But not enough, apparently, for the taxation department. The previous owners of the land ran cattle, so they got a break–known as farm deferral– in their taxes. We are city folk. When I was a young girl, my IQ […]
Long-lost New Year’s Photos Surface
So, yes, a full six–SIX–days after the new year, the pictures are being posted. We spent the last few days of 2006 and the first of 2007 at the coast with three other couples: my parents, Tygh & Ambria, and Ambria’s parents. It was supposed to be prime whale-watching, with 200-300 passing each hour, but […]
This Little Light of Mine
As we drove home from Taekwon-do yesterday night, the wind really picked up. Branches were blowing across the road. Occasionally, they blew right onto the roof of the van. At one point, a creek was flowing over the road. Passing a car who must have gone through too fast and flooded its engine, we put […]
Let ‘er Buck!
The Portland area Buckarettes, class of ’95! We all went to high school in Pendleton, home of the WORLD FAMOUS PENDLETON ROUNDUP! Impressed, aren’t you? From the back left: Kim, baby Evie, Gillian, Holli, Nicole, baby Lauren, and Allyson. Front left: me, Amelia, Alison, and baby Eli. (Oh, I’m really hoping I didn’t get Amelia’s […]
Yellow Locks & Yellow Belts
Looks like a scary family, huh? We joined Taekwon-do with just a smidge of trepidation concerning possible conflicts with our religious beliefs. As soon as we learned that our instructor and his wife had not only been married by the late Pastor Ron Mehl, but also walked the Holy Land with him, our doubts were […]