photo credit Sometimes I wonder how my life started to look like this: Wake up at 6:00 Monday morning pressed between my husband and a small child. He has a child on his other side, too. Get dressed. The first daycare child arrives early. Spend a few minutes with the Lord.

photo credit Today's forecast was in the mid-to-high 90s - rather warm for Northern Michigan - so I decided to take the kids to the beach. By myself.  It should not be a big project since we live only three miles from the shores of Lake Michigan, but somehow it turned out

Last night my husband and I were watching a re-run of an old sitcom where a child about ten years of age asks the parent about the meaning of life. "If we all go to heaven when we die anyway, why does God put us here first?" she said. The