Micah’s most recent tooth has looked different from the beginning, but today, it finally grew to the point where it was visible just what was making it look so odd. Micah has a double tooth! His top left lateral incisor looks like two narrow teeth fused together. It likely only has one root. Apparently this occurs in half a percent of children – and my Sunday school teacher, who is a dentist, said it doesn’t indicate anything will be wrong with his adult tooth, but he will look different for …

If what we write semi-anonymously behind the veil of our blogs, our twitters, or in the comments of even the least controversial blog posts, is any reflection of what is in the deeper part of our hearts (and I mean “us” in the collective sense – Americans), we are truly lost. I won’t even pollute this page with examples of the cutthroat comments and opinions I’ve read. When I get to the bottom of a popular blog, I click away before reading the comments because reading them makes me sick …

I recently updated my version of Picasa, which has already completely changed the way I organize and use my pictures on my computer. I am completely shocked by the new face recognition feature. As we speak it is scanning all of the photos and correctly identifying nearly every picture of me, my husband, my baby, and the numerous other family and friends that I initially named. I feel like I have been thrust into the future and I am a little freaked out. What is most amazing, is that I …

Micah: the little man who now has six teeth, who uses those teeth to climb, who has a death grip, who loves to jump on his bed, who loves to pull condiments out of the refrigerator door, who can’t eat enough Cheerios, who lives for pulling every. single. book. off his shelf. Who loves to watch the fish swim around in the aquarium, who squeals and waves his arms every time his daddy walks in the door, who wishes his mommy would let him play with electrical cords, who must …

This past week I joined (through e-mail) a quiet time accountability group called “Good Morning Girls” with three other bloggers: Lana, Karmen, and Dawn. It has had such an impact on my life already. For the first time in a long time, I have had some consistency, knowing that I need to send off that e-mail saying, “Today I read…” And that consistency is already producing some much needed fruit in my life. For one, the Lord convicted me of some yucky heart issues that I didn’t even realize were …

Well it “appears” that we are stuck… for quite a while. The brand new construction homes across the street just dropped their prices by nearly 25%, depending on the starting price, and in order to compete with them we would have to come up with approximately $40,000. The builders have abandoned our neighborhood, so here it sits, one row of homes, a little over half of the occupied, a little more than half of them on the market.

This morning I took Micah to the pediatrician for his 9-month checkup. All went well until it was time for the vaccinations. I can’t stand the pitiful cries and the tears. He had a booster, a flu shot and an H1N1 vaccine. It’s important to me that he and I get vaccinated for the flu to protect the new baby girl that I will be babysitting in a few months. But that doesn’t make it any easier to hold him down while the nurse sticks his thigh with a big …

-noun

Steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, etc., esp. in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement.
Theology. continuance in a state of grace to the end, leading to eternal salvation.
A nine-month-old boy learning…. just about anything.

I watched Micah bounce in his Jump-n-Go for about 30 minutes straight and I realized, if I were to merely copy his actions throughout the day, I really don’t think I could physically make it past day three. It’s no wonder he sleeps 15 hours a day (12 at night plus 3 …

Eighteen months ago I saw one of these and experienced one of the biggest surprises of my life:

We were definitely trying to get pregnant, but that month I was sure it didn’t happen. I felt too “normal.” (I hadn’t noticed my increased appetite and the fact that I was taking 1-2 hour naps every day for the past week!) I can’t even begin to explain how excited I was that morning when I saw the faded pink line appear just seconds after I took the test.
By early November, it was …