Football In Heaven

John "Nellie" Nelson. He was a good friend to Aaron and to me. He even rolled down the aisle at our wedding. It's hard to imag...

I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up

My mom sent me a news clipping from her Hong Kong newspaper about this building collapse in Shanghai that's all the buzz in Asian news....

Our Real American Life

Real life has started. Which is why I'm not blogging as much as I did in the summer. Olivia and Aaron started school on Tuesday. Gabe st...

Total Eclipse

Har har har! Have you seen any Literal Video Versions of 80's music videos? If not, click here to watch their version of "Total E...

Pop! Goes the Baptism Bead

Today after Sunday School I was walking toward the nursery when someone said, "Did you hear that Gabe got a bead stuck up his nose?...

Forget Something?

This made me LOL. No, actually, ROTFL. No, actually, POTFL. C'mon, you've never heard of Pee On The Floor Laughing?

WIP Wednesday: I Think I Thunk It All Out

I haven't written much this week. But I did spend a lot of time in the car on Sunday to and from Seattle thinking about the novel I'...

Dissed

I stayed up late making it. Sophie looked cute holding it. She even wore her My-First-Mariner's T-shirt and did The Sprinkler to "I...

First fruits

Today Aaron picked the first bunch of green grapes from his parent's backyard vines. I've never been in Prosser for grape season bef...

Quick Step

Sophie took her first steps this afternoon. Three steps towards her daddy. Then she took two sets of three or four steps to me tonight. It...

Never Ending

Oh happy day! Just over one year ago we finished Olivia's adoption and I kissed paperwork goodbye. Beautiful, wonderful, freeing day. Or...

WIP Wednesday: Novel Swapping

Any Day But (alternately titled V-Day ) is out with one of my writing-buddies, Florence. We've done a novel swap, so I'm reading he...

How Strange

How strange That as I write this post All my children's friends in China Are on the school bus for their first day of school (And many o...

Shelved

Sigh. It's time to shelve Up Lantau Running ; time to call it a "practice book." This afternoon I saw an email sitting in my i...

God Bless America

I had a yay-for-America moment tonight. I was making a last-minute lasagna, meaning it had to be done by 6p.m. This was when I knew my fathe...

I Recommend: Dan in Real Life

Surprise! This is not a book review. This is a movie review. And I don't watch movies very often, so this may be the last movie review y...

Provision 3

We're in the process of buying our first home. All I can say is Wow. Wow. And now I'll try to elaborate on that. There are Wows on v...

Warm

No matter how old I get. No matter how hot the day is. I will always love the warm tingle of laundry fresh from the dryer against my skin.

Escape Slug

Slugs leave slime trails. Everybody knows that. But leave it to a science teacher to come up with the idea of comparing slug slime to differ...

Angels

I decided to walk down to the grocery store this morning with Anna and Sophie in the baby jogger. But as I was getting ready to leave, I not...

A Summer In Pictures

My crazy kids with their 2nd cousins, Alaythia and Isaiah. Swing high, swing low, away we go! Bathing beauties enjoying poolside popsicles: ...

I Am Not An Addict

I'm in the process of proving to myself that I am not a Dr. Pepper addict. It struck me last weekend when we were camping how much Dr. P...