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When Is It Okay to Question God?
If you have kids, you will relate to this conversation. Me: I need you to get dressed in something nice, and get in the car so we aren’t...
I Need Help - Ezra 8:21-22
November 30, 2020 Reading Ezra today and I love this book. It has been a long while since I read it and, like always, I am seeing new...
Proverbs 31 Woman - Part 2 - Here is Why You Can Do This
If you didn't read "Proverbs 31 Woman - Part 1", where I explain the process that brought me to even desire to be this woman in the first...
Why Don't We Do What We Love?
The last couple of days, I have received text after text from friends in Alaska. They are commenting on the article I wrote for the...
Proverbs 31 Woman - Part 1-Do I Really Want to Be Her?
I can still remember the first time I read Proverbs, Chapter 31. I was in college, sitting in my apartment at Auburn University in...
Answered Prayers
When I was in high school, Garth Brooks put out the popular song "Unanswered Prayers" and at the time I loved the message because I felt...
Day #20: Tupelo, MS to Deatsville, AL
I couldn't hardly sleep last night because the kids had slept together, but they were all the way across the house from the room we slept...
Day #19: Springfield, MO to Tupelo, MS
I don't have any pictures. I know that I should but I got busy and so I just don't. We woke up in Springfield, Missouri, knowing that...
Day #18: Council Bluffs, IA to Springfield, MO
No one slept well last night. We all tossed and turned and woke up sleepy, but we got out pretty early. It had stormed last night and...
Day #17: Council Bluffs, IA to Council Bluffs, IA
We slept until 9:30 and woke up in a panic (well, Garrett and I anyway) thinking we had missed breakfast, but we didn't. About 11:30 we...
Day #15: Billings, MT to Rapid City, SD
During breakfast at the hotel, Ellie and I saw a commercial for Olive Garden, offering a card that gives you pasta for a year, for $300. ...
Day #14: Billings, MT Birthday Bash
Today is G's 9th birthday and we decided to stay here another night (although the hotel rates are insane). We started the morning like...
Day #13: Cody, WY to Billings, MT
We left Cody, WY this morning with an engine light on in my brand new Honda Pilot. I wasn't worried at first because all Hondas...
Day #12: Big Sky, MT to Cody, WY
Hover over the pictures to get the caption for each one. The breakfast buffet at Buck's was top-notch. I took the kids to eat, but Will...
Day #11: Butte, MT to Big Sky, MT
We left around 8am, headed to Bozeman, MT, to the Museum of the Rockies but first I wanted to stop by the Missouri River Headwaters State...
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