The screaming of coaches echoed off the walls. Anxious parents with brows furrowed together in anxiety or others with smiles that spread across their face lined the stands ready to pounce and save their child during a match. I watched as this scrawny boy jumped up and down. He had 72.2 and a C marked on his little arms with black permanent marker....





Advent calendars and activities abound on Pinterest and other social media sites at this time of year. They have all these cute little gifts packaged up and put on display as if it was in a store. Twenty four little gifts so that you get something before the big reveal of gifts under the tree. Gifts all month long. I remember as a...




I found the perfect car I told my husband over the phone. I wanted to believe it so badly. It was perfect too. Small tin can, just right for hauling my 16 year old all over the place. It would get great gas mileage. It would be a commuter car to get him to and from school and practices. It could haul the...
Isaac is a typical high school student except that he's attending Whatcom Community College. He's involved with our youth group at church, played tennis in the fall, chess during the winter season. He played on an outdoor recreation soccer team and an indoor soccer team. He also referees soccer games on the weekends. His life is one of a typical high school kid,...







Something so small such as cupcakes can bring two people together from two different age groups and two different personality traits. I am not a cupcake maker. In fact I am not a cake maker; not at all. I may have baked a cake once, but I really can't remember. The little cupcakes that are floating around pinterest are so beautiful and I...








Excited can not contain how I feel on the inside. Things are bubbling out of me. I am discovering learning, enjoying, experimenting with art, with journaling, with my Bible reading. I have often admired those who have daily quiet time, but was never motivated beyond a couple of days to read and to apply. Enter my Grace Girls as I affectionately like to...




I am from many long nights staying up with the family from the smell of freshly made waffles on Sunday as I wake up and the long days spent in the car on our way to Grandma's. From waking up early in the morning to find that I have to do school. From wonderful summer days swimming in the pool with the neighborhood...
Silence in the car, Gently lapping waves against the hull of a boat, Cooing of doves, Rustling of dried leaves on a crisp Autumn day, Crackle of hard snow under my boots, Whimpers from a sleeping puppy, "I love you" whispered by my husband or my children, The sighs of a tired boy cuddled close on the couch, A sincere thank you by...