I feel pressure to write an extremely moving, sentimental, and wide-sweeping last Nebraska post. However, I'm not sure my mind and heart can get there quite yet. Everything just feels like it's not actually happening. I think my emotions are simply shocked into paralysis. The fact is, my last morning as a resident of Nebraska … Continue reading Lasts
Small little saucers and glasses all sizes Knick knacks with stories and upstairs surprises Breakfasts with craisins and bananas galore These are a few of my favorite things Buckets of petals and blossoms of flowers Sandy white castles and pretend tool powers Kids who are sick and yet loved and adored These are a few … Continue reading Few of My Favorite Things
I’m not a cold-hearted stoic after all! For a while there, I was getting nervous. Do I even have a heart?! Why am I NOT sad? Not even a teeny bit? I got to the point in my lack of sentimentality that something was wrong with me, and it needed to be addressed. I started … Continue reading Feelings
“Pinch me. I must be dreaming,” Gwen confessed to me concerning her life in Minnesota, as we closed our very first, new-neighbor conversation. She stole the words right out of my mouth. Or rather… as I sit here on my screened-in porch, sipping hot coffee in the cool of the Minnesota morning, listening to birds … Continue reading Enchanted
What a whirlwind. Tomorrow we get to see the Meadow Lane Manor! (Yes, our house has a name. How do you name a house? I don't know, but we found it somewhere on the internet... Yes, please!) Earlier this week, every person in our household (minus Lois) got bombarded by the Norovirus (aka stomach bug) … Continue reading Ready
Seminary Wife 