Traveling teaches you a lot about yourself. And traveling with my family teaches you an extra amount about yourself because it requires an incredible amount of patience as misfortune after misfortune happens. And it’s not just on big trips either. Even on a weekend trip to Auburn, a trip we make multiple times every year,…
A couple of days ago Gerrit and I had the opportunity to go see the documentary A Place at the Table at a local church and hear from some people who are fighting hunger in our local area. To be honest, part of me did not want to go at all. It was cold. To…
My family loves personality tests. Actually, let me clarify that. My mother and I love personality tests, and we love making the rest of the family take them so that we can analyze how we all interact together. We’ve all taken the Myers-Briggs (I am an INFJ and Gerrit is an ENFJ which I find…
I am learning that you can never predict your moments–your moments of such beauty or fragility or joy that make you pause, sometimes with your jaw dropped open. You never know when sentiment is suddenly going to overtake you just because your brother is helping you make dinner or because the trees are so red…
A couple of months ago, I hit an absolute meal planning rut. With the hundreds of recipes I have bookmarked, I still couldn’t figure out what seemed like it would fit into a week. I felt like I kept turning to the same things and I knew that if I was having problems with this,…