Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this. ― Dave Eggers Let me first begin by...

Although, like most children, you all have always loved the Christmas season, we’re bridging new years as a family, years where you enjoy the giving...

Every year on the weekend following Thanksgiving, we pack into our car and pick out a tree together. It’s a simple tradition really, one that’s...

Olive | You are always moving. Bouncing. Running. Talking. Slowly your words are catching up to your deep sense of emotion. You told me this...

Most of this week you spent time in your friends’ homes while Dad and I traveled to Boston for a few days. You each were...

Never jump into a pile of leaves with a wet sucker. – Linus,  It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown This year, we wandered the one...

Every year, around this time, I grow a bit heart-sick. While I scroll through images on my phone of apple orchards, cozy sweaters, and brightly...

  You must do the things you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt olive | You feel things deeply, and for being still so...

You’re here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world.  –Matthew 5:14, The Message  olive | You’ve lost so many teeth the last...

Dearest children, We are now several weeks into our school year and have been reading oodles of fables together lately, samples from the more familiar Aesop’s...