We just spent the past week in Cape San Blas, FL and now are having a hard time adjusting back to normal life (luckily…we have another travel adventure coming later in the summer!). We were at the beach with Gerrit’s entire family, and in a way it was an exciting trip as it felt like…
This past week has been tough. Evelyn chewed a huge hole in her pacifier, so we decided it was time for it to go. The first few days went okay, but after two days she was so distraught she started climbing out of her crib. So we converted her crib to a toddler bed, which…
It has been really good to feel like things have been settling down recently. Don’t get me wrong, we have still had a lot going on; but in general I feel like we have been back to our normal life rhythms. Which has also meant I’ve been back in the kitchen cooking and trying to…
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed Tiny Beautiful Things is a collection from an advice column, Cheryl Strayed’s answers to letters when she wrote for Dear Sugar. It is beautiful and heartbreaking and at times very tough to read. And while it is a collection of advice,…
This past weekend we got to spend the day at one of our favorite places, Maranatha, which is the camp I grew up going to (not just for summer…actually I didn’t go for summer that much because I was a homesick child, but rather with my family and my church). It is the camp I…