Julie and Julia

A couple of weeks ago my daughter and I went to see the movie Julie and Julia. A friend had encouraged me to go simply because of how the movie portrays marriage. You know Hollywood gets the relationship thing wrong much of the time. But they got it right in Julie and...

The cat with 9 lives!

Ok, so this should make you laugh. Today, I was driving down the road to pick up my son. I’d driven at least 8 miles when I came to a stoplight. The car next to me was honking like crazy so I rolled down the window. The frantic woman said, “You have a cat...

Friday’s Quote of the Week

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. ~Corrie Ten Boom

Dinner Date with God

Last week I gave you some ideas for spending some extended time with God. If you missed that post click here. Today I want to talk about prayer. Prayer is simply talking with God! Nothing fancy needed…just talk to God like you would a friend sitting across from...

What is Marriage?

I recently found a card Mark gave me last year on our anniversary. It’s words are so true:What is marriage? It’s vacuuming carpets and hammering nails. It’s saving a dollar by shopping at sales. It’s balancing checkbooks and paying off...

Please pray for Mary

When you read this blog post today, will you please pray for Mary Provance? Mary is my daughter-in-law’s mom and she has been diagnosed with leukemia. And of all the kinds of leukemia there are, she has the bad kind.A little over a year ago, Mary and I were...

The Circle of Life

Thirteen years ago when I found out I was pregnant with Austin just two weeks before Mark’s vasectomy surgery, we had to laugh. By that time, I had been leading a large moms in our community for six years. And Hearts at Home was just two years old. God...

Wedding Day

It was a beautiful wedding. That’s about all I can think of to say today. I’m pretty exhausted today and just soaking in the reality of being here at home with my husband, my two boys, and the reality of a new normal.Motherhood…it’s the only...

It’s Wedding Day!

It’s wedding day at the Savage’s. At 6pm tonight, Erica and Kendall will officially start their new life together.We started off the day with all of the girls going out for breakfast and then on to get our nails done together. (Picture l-r: me, daughter...