The beginning of softball season is always an exciting time around our house, but in recreation league, there is always a bit of uncertainty mixed in as well. Unlike school-based or travel sport’s teams where the players and coaches stay fairly consistent from year to year, in a Rec League the kids are assigned in […]
About midway through a long road trip with a van full of fatigued travelers, an empty gas tank prompted us to pull into a convenience store to fill up and stretch one last time before embarking on the last leg of our journey. Assuming that there was no dinner plan in place, after hitting the […]
Last weekend my oldest son, Ryan, left for college in Charleston, SC to join the ranks of the thousands of new students who are away from home for basically the first time in their lives. Simultaneously, I joined the vast ranks of parents adjusting to a new normal in their households that are suddenly “minus […]
I recently heard to a podcast from a favorite Bible teacher in which he gave a brief history recap of the church he pastors. It was a truly remarkable story of God’s faithfulness and blessing to a very small group of people that ballooned rapidly into a multi-state congregation that even extends to a satellites congregation in other […]
Did you watch any of the Olympics on TV? Our family has made it a nightly routine to turn on the Games to keep up with marquee sports like swimming, gymnastics, basketball, and soccer while keeping an eye out for the highlights of the many other competitions going on in Rio. When the venue shifted in the […]
Last week life began to return to normal after our family vacation. The suitcases have been unpacked and put away, the laundry has been processed, and all the souvenirs have found new homes at various places around the house. We also managed to download our digital camera, along with snapshots from four separate cell phones […]