Multiple Piano Festival

It’s my favorite event of the school year!  All our friends, teachers, and classmates come together to feed our community.  We sing carols and drink hot chocolate and eat cookies.  I’m blessed to be able to volunteer at this event every year and the generosity of our school community blows me away.  It gives me…

Per usual, we celebrated the 4th of July a little early. For some reason our neighborhood always does it’s big celebration a day early. The festivities started with a Firecracker 5K run. Kami always inspires me with the stories of her races, so I had to try it out. I was lucky enough to take…

Our church practices fairly strict Sabbath Day observance.  No shopping, eating out, housework, playing with friends etc.  We try to listen to good music, and watch only uplifting TV/movies, if any at all.  It is a day set aside for church worship and family time. But, last week my 1/2 marathon happened to fall on…

Today at soccer he was playing against his good friend Truman.  They were head to head and his coach said, “Blake, take the ball away from Truman.”  He sat down on the field and started crying saying, “I don’t want to take the ball from Truman!  He is my friend!” “Mom, this is what I…