Truth is stranger than fiction, but sometimes, fiction can help people get through some pretty difficult truth. After my three older children left home, I started Project Ruth Ann. [Read more…]
Waiting for the next thing…
Todd is a Navy man. He served over five years, mainly on the USS Milwaukee, an oil rig and cargo carrier, and his term of service coincided with the first Gulf War. During his final tour, he spent seven months overseas in the time before cell phones or even email. The wrinkle in this event was our little bundle who arrived five months into his deployment [Read more…]
Everyday Husband
My husband really stinks at remembering special days. For years, Christmas, Mother’s Day, birthdays, and anniversaries always seemed to sneak up behind him as if they changed every year. Those tricky little devils just jumped around on the calendar to spite his best intentions of getting it right the next year. [Read more…]
I’m a little teacup…
A precious lady from our church blessed the ladies of our fellowship with a special gift. For years, sweet Janice has collected teacups, and she decided to give them all away to her friends at church. Each of us filed by a table covered in lovely gift bags with our fragile treasures protected in dainty tissue paper with a lovely note to tell the story about the life of a teacup. The story itself was a treasure, so I’ll do my best to retell it here… [Read more…]
Dad’s Little Things
“The longer I live, the more I realize that the little things ARE the big things.” My husband can look a bit scary, and I guess that came in handy when we had four teenagers at once, but in real life, he’s quite the teddy bear [Read more…]