This week I went to Siloam Springs, Arkansas— home of the beautiful John Brown University. We dropped off our twin daughters for their freshman year of college. My, how time has flown!…
Dang, derecho.
How are you guys doing? I’m not asking just to be nice. I really want to know. I welcome your reply——even if we’ve never spoken before. How are things at your house?…
Fear of death.
What is the silliest thing that you’re afraid of? That’s the Icebreaker question on this week’s GNNNN. We are asking it to prompt a discussion of fears in your family. This week’s…
Celebrate SOMETHING.
So, okay we’ve all been grieving the loss of a lot of things lately. Milestone events everywhere from dance recitals to sports seasons to graduation ceremonies to weddings and funerals. Some of…
Time flies.
I spent this week at the lake with the family, watching kids finally doing normal summer stuff: jumping off the dock, tubing, water skiing, playing in the sand, and watching Hamilton on…
Royals Day Camp.
What an exciting week we’ve had at NCBC Kids! Royals Day Camp taught 99 campers about our perfect King Jesus. An amazing team of volunteers poured their love out to give those…
Adding costs.
I just read that the average cost of raising a child to age 18 in America is $245K! If that’s true, I literally have a “million-dollar family!” LOL. When we started having…
Class of 2020.
This week we celebrate our twin daughters’ high school graduation. They call it commencement. I think it was near my own graduation before I learned that the word “commencement” actually means a…
Contempt.
If you’ve been married for longer than five minutes, you know there’s truth in the phrase, “Familiarity breeds contempt.”It means, “…if you know someone or something very well, you can easily become…
Have a Mother’s Day.
I just want to acknowledge how tiresome this is all getting. For many of us, this is the first Mother’s Day ever where we are unable to be with our moms. Let’s…