Even though it’s 3am the morning AFTER our anniversary, I decided to record my thoughts (I may sound a bit delirious and my eyes are rolling around a bit). I love my husband and I am SO proud of where we are… How did we get here?
We loved each other in spite of everything else.

On June 7th, 2001 an 18-year-old, 6 …

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A year ago, I had a horrible experience with another ministry “leader” which I allowed to completely compromise my spirit. I allowed bitterness and confusion and resentment and anger fester and infect my mind. I allowed the putrid effects of someone else’s spite penetrate my heart and start a downward spiral that left me secretly questioning everything around me. I found comfort in a friend …

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There is something I’ve been reflecting on for several days. I keep asking myself why I can’t ever be a surface scratcher… why I always have to pick things apart until I feel like I know them inside and out. I’m a very intelligent, vocal, confident person… but there are times those things translate into behaviors that borderline on arrogance; never intentionally of course, but …

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Every marriage goes through cycles. The truth is, you’ll never be able to stop working at making it work… but eventually, the work will seem much less like work because doing the things that make your marriage successful will begin to come naturally. The worst thing parents can do is to lose themselves their title of “mommy” or “daddy” because then …

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Last night after having stayed up cleaning the house until 3am, I wrote a little note for my husband before I laid down and left it on top of the laptop for him to find when he got home for his lunch break.

Have a great “rest of the” night!
I love you … Love, Wifey

This morning, when I woke up to get the kids on the …

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I wrote this letter to my husband February 2, 2009… since paper never lasts around here, I was SO surprised to run across it and I figured I would journalize it here so it gets preserved :)

Barry,
I love you – flaws and all. You are more of a man than I could have ever hoped for; in many ways, more of a man than I …

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Sometimes nothing in particular will happen… he will just walk past me and I will get overwhelmed with emotion. I will watch him wash our Suburban or read a book to one of the kids… I will notice him picking up something off the floor so the baby can’t put it in her mouth or realize he’s swept the house for me and my heart …

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This morning, my husband got off work and came home and got the girls ready for church and sent them on the van. He came in our bedroom where I was sleeping and woke me up so we could watch church on television. Toward the end, I went in the kitchen to make some sweet rolls. I heard him calling me so I sent Tre …

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I look around today and I see a society full of people who have become convinced that sex is just as casual as conversation. When I was younger, it wasn’t much different but I suppose as a parent my perspective has changed and it is disappointing. My mom never really talked about sex to me at all. Most of what I knew about sex I …

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Every parent has their get-out-of-my-face-before-I-reconsider-my-no-to-adoption moments when it comes to their children. With five children under the age of ten, I routinely ask my husband, “Can’t we just, like, put an ad in the Classifieds?” It would read: Free to good home – 5 rambunctious kiddos, no-so-clean, but very entertaining; they’ve been de-wormed (for the most part) and all have had their shots. But of …

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