Tweet! Our church has been doing a series for the past few weeks called Historic Faith. The leadership began talking to those of us on staff about it in January. The theme is generosity. There was a call to look at our giving, and decide if we would be willing to step out in courage and [...]

Tweet!Here is a little bit of my week in iPhone pictures – This may become one of my all time favorite pictures – And, to be completely accurate, it was not taken by me. My daughter took it on her phone. My grandson is in Time-Out, and his baby sister is keeping him company. One [...]

Tweet! I have seen bloggers doing posts of their week in phone pictures and I thought it would be fun to try that – hopefully you will find it mildly interesting! That is my iPhone home screen up there – I <heart> my phone! It seems like I can’t even remember life without cell phones.. [...]

Tweet!If you are a man I would like to recommend you step away. Just leave this post unread… it is for the best.. I will be writing about secret women things and such.. Actually, if you are a women who considers secret women things a poor topic of conversation, you should step away from your [...]

Tweet! This is my beautiful Granddaughter Kelsi. She is my oldest one, in fact she just turned 12 in November. Like most 12 year olds, there are a lot of things she enjoys and would love to get as gifts. She has a huge love of reading, animals, and nail polish. This year, however, those things were [...]

Tweet!   Image from The Graphic’s Fairy     I had quite a weekend. Saturday morning my husband and son got into a car and left for a 36 hour drive. Leaving me behind.. My husband was coming back in 5 days by plane. My son was not.. My last child was leaving home. It didn’t [...]

Tweet! This past weekend we went on a train ride to see the fall colors. As we are watching the seasons change across the country, I decided it was a good time to tell you about the new season I am entering in my life. Some of you may remember this post I wrote about 6 [...]

Tweet! Every two years we have a family reunion that includes my Mother, all of my siblings, and all of our families. We have been having it at a church camp in my area for the past several years. This year we decided to try a different camp, also close by. My mother has 7 [...]

Tweet!I have finally returned from my trip to that foreign country known as Tennessee It is a place I had never even thought of visiting until my daughter and her family moved there a year ago… As you can see from my map, it is far far away from my country.. But nothing gets me to ride [...]

Tweet! My last post left you with a cliff-hanger… Go here to read it. The Little Brown House Goes To Camp Always the drama queen….. So -the question is,  did I put aside all of my fears and walk through that door into Bloggy Boot Camp, and my destiny? Yup. I did.. I was immediately [...]

Tweet! We are home again after our road trip to Seattle. The weather was absolutely gorgeous – the best they have had in Seattle in months. Apparently it rains a lot there….. We had a combined reason for the trip. On Saturday I was going to my first blogging convention.. don’t laugh.. it is a [...]

Tweet!As promised – a continuation. Go here to read the first half. It Started With A Picture – Part 1 Here is where I left off in part one of my story: Around 10 weeks later, they did another test on me, and told us that they thought the baby might have Downs Syndrome. So [...]

Tweet!So, I started looking through some pictures.. Yep – thats the way it all began. I decided that you might like to hear a little bit about my story – through pictures.. So here are a few snippets of part of a five decade life… I am pretty sure I was born worried.. I wasn’t [...]

Tweet! Yes. It is true.. I was a High School Cheerleader. Twice. But don’t be jealous people. Really. Because the 2nd time I was a cheerleader was at a Christian School. And believe me, that is a whole different ball game. It was in the late 70’s – I tried out for cheerleader at the new private school I had [...]