This year has been one of those years. I have a delayed emotional reaction where change is concerned, in other words I don’t break down or fully rejoice until after the event has been dealt with and is behind me, neatly ironed and packed away or hung up on display. Someone has to stay level…

Finally! My phone beeped at 2.22 on Wednesday morning, October 2nd. “Headed to the hospital” I read, from Simon, our bird-keeping, rock climbing son and expectant Dad! This has to be the only time when a message containing those words is met with excitement! “Shall we come?” I responded, wide awake. “Not right away, we’ll…

First and last children get to be onlies for a couple of years… if they’re lucky and especially if they’re first and last all in one! You were lucky! The oldest of four you spent one-on-one time with Pops and me for two and a half years.  I’d say you were VERY lucky! You got…

A few months ago Daughts was walking the back way into Weston and came across some wild flowers that resembled upside down lilies. “I have no idea what those are,” I said and the next time I walked I took a detour. “They look as though they’ve been dug up and tossed on the road-side,”…

Our brand new Deacon, fresh out of seminary, brings insight to those of us who have been around a long time and claim to have, “Heard it all!” I, for one, can never hear too much about the Lord. For me there are always new ideas, interesting viewpoints and varying perspectives, depending on the author…

When I was young I wanted six children. My parents, with their two, thought I was crazy. Hubs and I settled on four when my OBGyn advised that four C-sections were quite enough.  I kept my fingers crossed for twins…probably a blessing that they were all loners! As I was raising my children I had…

I love farm machinery. At our last garden club meeting – held at Myer’s Park & Event Centre, a beautiful 158 acre piece of property with research gardens; also the stomping ground of Collin County’s Master Gardeners – we were walking through the beds, paying attention to the elaborate stone and metalwork of the walkways, the herbs…

We all enjoy Amazon Prime, I can order something and get it tomorrow. It’s convenient, I don’t even have to leave my house, packages come to the front door, sometimes even on a bench inside our front porch. However, because I live out in the country, it doesn’t always seem safe to have random deliverers…

Our trip to Kingsland in the Texas hill country included a locked room in our suite that drove me to distraction… Ever curious it invoked almost too much temptation for me to ignore. As a child and young adult if I could find a way to open a door closed to me, without being found out,…

When we moved into Footlights 4 years ago we had planned to build two porches so we could leave the doors open and get that breeze-way effect.  The back porch was already covered and we slapped up a frame to screen it in and talked about eventually expanding to incorporate the uncovered portion of the…