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How dramatic is that.

It feels silly to do anything but slip away quietly into the night after I haven’t posted here for so long anyway, but I also wanted to honor almost twelve years of blogging with a goodbye of some kind.

I’ve loved having this blog. So much.

I write more now than I ever have since I’ve had children, but none of it hits the blog anymore. Instead, it all gets packaged up neatly in a weekly letter to my mom, and it hurries off from my house to hers, where she reads it out loud to my dad at supper time every Monday night.

I don’t have time for both the letter and the blog, and the letter is invisible to online predatorial eyes (or even just snoopy ones), so if I have to pick between the letter and the blog, I’ll pick the letter every time.

I’ve spent the last eight months meticulously removing my boys’ faces, names, and information from social media and my blog.

It’s been such a good run. But. ...continue reading →

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Moments.

Life is made up of them. Some of them are exhilarating, others depressing. Quite a few of them are actually downright boring. There’s no way of knowing when one moment will end and when the next will begin or if a moment that began in joy will end in pain, and vice versa. But one thing is true about all of them: they are fleeting.

That’s part of the beauty of life. No moment lasts forever. They come and go, and though we cannot hold them, we know that more will follow, and who is to say that those will not be more lovely than the ones we cling to now? Through all the changeableness of life, through the moments we hold tightly and the ones we wish would end, there is one constant, and that is the One Who created us. ...continue reading →