Archive for December, 2011

36 big news for 2012

For the last 3 years and 3 months I have been pregnant, nursing, or BOTH. I continue to be impressed by what God created my body to be capable of doing, but I also admit that I haven’t taken as good of care of my body through these long seasons of child bearing as I [...]

15 faith like a child

“Turn down!” “Turn down what, buddy?” I reach for the radio volume, assuming that he was not digging the Talk of the Nation program on NPR as much as I was. “Da light. Turn down.” We have several fading light switches in our house, including in the boys’ room, so the idea of fading the [...]

43 that is not what working out looks like

There are photographs out there floating around the interwebs that are referred to as “fitspiration” or “fitspo”. They are pictures of fit, well toned women in athletic apparel seemingly in the throws of a hardcore workout. Their purpose is to inspire the viewer to work like the woman in the picture is “working” so that you can [...]

41 the dollar store and other ways to pinch a penny

{image source} Stop me if you’ve heard this one: DanO and I are on a no-frills budget. Great, here she goes again. No, but really. We have our student loan debt in our cross-hairs and we have decided to stop living a lifestyle that pretends we don’t have debt. Paying off those loans is our [...]