She says: I love you. I say: I love you more. She says: No, I love YOU even more than that. I say: I love you all the way to the ceiling. She says: No, I love YOU all the way to the ceiling. I say: I love you all the way to the sky. […]
I write letters to my kids on their birthdays (and sometimes on their half-birthdays too).
She says: I love you. I say: I love you more. She says: No, I love YOU even more than that. I say: I love you all the way to the ceiling. She says: No, I love YOU all the way to the ceiling. I say: I love you all the way to the sky. […]
You'll be one in just a few short weeks. Can it really be? It seems like just yesterday that I was pulling up to the birth center, singing through the contractions. One hour later, I was pushing on my hands and knees in the water. Tim caught you from behind. When I looked back, he […]
Yesterday, I took the girls to the library. My 3-year-old was happy, so happy when we went to the desk to sign up for her very own library card. The librarian held up two card options - a special kids one with cartoons on it or a plain green one (the same one as mine). […]
She's never been much into dolls (or princesses or ballerinas or pink). She likes running and biking and fighting sharks and jumping on the bed. She likes doing crafts and making peanut butter balls and playing "hide and sneak." That said, every once in awhile, she'll line up her dolls on the bed and play doctor […]
She was 17 months old when this photo was taken - our lively, beautiful, firstborn...the one who changed our lives forever. And now she is 3 (THREE!). She is chewing gum, riding bikes, chasing dreams. Yesterday, she said: "When I am fifteen, I am going to drive our car - and you and daddy are […]
I have a dream that one day every baby all around the world will have food to eat, a safe place to live, and a family to love. I have a dream that one day every baby will be wanted completely, loved gently, and held often. * 11 months old
If I were to write down a list of the top traits that I want my children to exhibit in life, I'd probably list: kindness, goodness, patience, compassion, mercy, humility, gentleness, and hope. Essentially, those qualities all describe LOVE. More than anything, I want my kids to love God and love people genuinely, from the […]
In 1997, I flew halfway across the world to Bangladesh, a small country in SE Asia. When I got off the airplane in Dhaka, I cried. The poverty was absolutely devastating. I still remember the children that greeted us there with their empty, pleading eyes and paper donation cups. Their dusty knees, bony elbows, and […]