A boy and his stick

Phillip loves to carry a stick whenever he is outside. The first thing he does when we go to the park or even take a walk is find a stick. If we’re around a body of water, he will pretend it is his “fishy pole.” He is such a boy!

Elizabeth’s fashion rules

Elizabeth and I often have little “arguments” about what she is or is not going to wear, which I’m sure will only get worse as she gets older. I try to let her pick out her own clothes as much as possible, but I must admit sometimes I’m baffled by what she thinks “matches” [...]

New vocabulary word

Caleb and Elizabeth know very little about Catholicism, since we don’t really know any Catholics. But they’ve had a lot of questions from watching the coverage of the pope’s visit on the news.
Caleb seemed disinterested in it a few days ago until something the announcer said made him do a double take at the [...]

We sold our house!

We drove to Arkadelphia one last time on Thursday to close on our house. It was a weird feeling walking through it for the last time– a lot of relief mixed with a little sadness, thinking about how little the kids were when we moved in 7 years ago, bringing Phillip home from the [...]

Everyone is home!

My boys are home again. Phillip returned to me Thursday after being with my mom and dad for a week, and Lannie returned Friday after being in Knoxville for 3 days. Caleb, Elizabeth, and I were pretty bored without the other half of our family.
We met my parents in Little Rock on Thursday [...]