by Melinda | Jul 28, 2013 | All in the Family, God in the Everyday, Home on the Range, Living Low, Marriage, Motherhood, Thankfulness
When Emmie and her family were here this summer, she asked to recreate a photo she saw on Pinterest. Three generations of married women. I’ve taken to calling it the “hands of time,” which is, well, self-explanatory! It’s a neat picture, but...
by Melinda | May 12, 2013 | All in the Family, Motherhood, Reaching Out, Relationship, Thankfulness
I have a wonderful mother. I marvel unto this day, this 49th Mother’s day of my life, that God saw fit to put me into my particular family, my particular mother’s arms, because it was an idyllic way to be raised. She stopped whatever she was doing...
by Melinda | May 6, 2013 | All in the Family, In the Eye of the Beholder, Mimmie's Heart, Motherhood, My Girls, Thankfulness, Uncategorized, Working Out Faith
My little grandson was 8 weeks old yesterday. Crazy hard to believe, but then it’s May already. MAY. Ridiculous. As it turned out, his due date had been miscalculated, because when he arrived they realized that he was not as far along gestationally as...
by Melinda | May 4, 2013 | All in the Family, Healing Hearts, Home on the Range, Living Low, Motherhood, My Girls, Thankfulness, Uncategorized
When I was a little girl, my parents would let us put some money in the offering plate at church. The heavy, wooden plate with the maroon velvet lining in the bottom would pass under our noses and we would each drop our offering in it, proud. It was good...
by Melinda | Apr 30, 2013 | All in the Family, God in the Everyday, Living Low, Living the God Life, Mimmie's Heart, Motherhood, My Girls, Reaching Out, Relationship, Thankfulness
My daughter was recently at Target (her second address) with the kids, shopping for Mother’s Day cards. Lilli was in the back of the buggy (I’m sure either begging for a cookie, or already eating one), as Emmie’s reading different cards....
by Melinda | Apr 7, 2013 | Mimmie's Heart, Motherhood, Thankfulness, Uncategorized
You know, this morning I’m tired. Between sweet baby-lovin,’ and sweet toddler-lovin’ and guidin’ and disciplinin,’ and disrupted sleep, and a battle against the evil Florida allergens, I find myself sitting in this chair, just...
