“We interrupt this evenings program to bring you this breaking news…”
“Mom, I just threw up in my bed.”
So, do you know anything about interruptions? (We each chuckle.) They can be so irritating and get a person so sidetracked, can’t they? In my mind I often think, “I have a list of important things I should be doing”.
When my children were very little I used to have a Henri Nouwen quote on my refrigerator from his book, Turn My Mourning into Dancing. He quoted an older University of Notre Dame teacher that said, [Read more…]
During our Thanksgiving family get together with our kids and their families, our children helped to provide the energy to drive out into the pasture to cut down a cedar tree to decorate for Christmas. After having 42 house guests on Thanksgiving weekend and seeing that it was starting to drizzle out, I was all too willing to excuse them from the yearly tradition. They chose to be adventuresome and headed out with dad in the pick up truck.