Our journey today goes back just a few years, but it feels more like a dozen.  It's from a part of my life that was so fleeting, but at the time felt like it would never end...the mom-of-a-baby-and-preschooler years! I became a stay-at-home mom when my second daughter...

The Swing By Robert Louis Stevenson    How do you like to go up in a swing,    Up in the air so blue?    Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing    Ever a child can do!

Today's moment isn't a single snapshot of time, but rather a place.  The place I feel most content, most  at peace, most still... I was pregnant with Audrey the first time we heard about it.  At a church event, a couple shared stories of a place they vacationed each...

I gaze upon my children and wonder.  Of all the moments we spend together, of all the words I speak, which ones will lock in their memory?  30 years from now when they gaze back to these days, what will they recall... Clocks.  Lots of clocks.  Grandfather chimes,...

We all came to welcome you, we all came to your birth We all came to welcome you, to welcome you to Earth And I was there to love you, I was there to love you, I was there to love you and lend my body for Your safe and gentle journey here Through heaven’s open door....

And at the end of that time a beautiful rainbow bridge stretched from heaven to earth and on it came the child as a tiny baby and slid into her mother’s waiting arms.

I spent my early elementary years living in a small Illinois farming town where I took the bus to and from school each day.  It was a long trek down the lane where I walked each morning to catch the bus.  The schedule even varied from week to week.  If it was the...

I was an honest to goodness worrywart when I was a child.  I fretted about everything from having cancer to returning my books to the library past the due date.  So when my parents traveled to Hawaii for a vacation, I was beside myself with negative thoughts.  A plane...

A trip down memory lane.  That's what this challenge is turning out to be for me.  It's a fitting time for such a trip.  In the autumn season, I often find myself turning inward.  As the leaves change, so does the direction of my thoughts.  I find that I'm more...