by Melinda | Dec 31, 2014 | Christmas, God in the Everyday, He's Bigger than Me, Hope, Living the God Life, Marriage, Trust, Uncategorized
Last week, as we celebrated Christmas with the Garmans, my sister-in-law, Monique, and I were talking recipes. She had made my chili that day (we have forgone formal for fun) and I had brought her husband, Ralph’s, favorite carrot cake. She asked me if I...
by Melinda | Dec 26, 2014 | Dream Scape, Get Real, Marriage
It’s the day after Christmas. I don’t know about you, but every year on this day I start looking forward. A new year stretches out before me like a blank page and that excites me. At the end of 1999, we were living in Iowa and wondering, like everyone...
by Melinda | Jul 17, 2014 | Marriage, My Man, Thankfulness, Work
We sat there all day, my man and I, in our den-turned-office, across from one another at our new partner’s desk. He was doing phoning and planning; I was setting up social media, and working through correspondence. We alternated between constructive...
by Melinda | Apr 5, 2014 | Life Abundant, Love Free, Marriage, My Man, Relationship, Thankfulness
I was looking through the “notes” section on my phone for a phone number I’d recorded there a while back. Each of the notes is listed by the first few words of the note itself, and as I was scrolling through them, looking for the...
by Melinda | Mar 28, 2014 | Marriage, My Man, Relationship, Thankfulness
About 2-3 weeks ago, Kevin set a couple of posts for a hammock. It’s been a while since we had a hammock – years actually – and, last summer, we discovered the perfect place for one where the breeze is always blowing, even in the heat of the...
by Melinda | Mar 5, 2014 | All Together Now, Home on the Range, Living Low, Marriage, My Man, Thankfulness
We’ve started doing something new around here. We have two occasional chairs that are tucked into a recessed bookcase in our living room. They are the kind of chairs that typically only get used when we have a roomful of people, but we both love them....
