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Magnetic refrigerator fun… When our daughter Hannah’s jaw was wired shut eight months ago, Grandma bought her a whiteboard to help her communicate without pain to her jaw. She never used it. But when her wires came off she said, “Let’s put this whiteboard on the fridge. Our family could have some fun with this!” That very next morning we found proof that it was true. A refrigerator whiteboard could be lots of fun! Enter Whiteboard Billy. Talented Hannah created him right there on that whiteboard a couple of months ago and he keeps coming back. We almost never actually see the story changing asRead More →

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In: Adventures in Learning, Grace, Taking After My Father, Uncategorized

Hiding in, clinging to, learning to absolutely delight in God’s Word… I have found so much peace and comfort in this. One of the ways I have clung is to hand-write Scripture on pretty tags. After I made two sets of twenty-five tags for gifts I decided I needed one as well. Part of the joy was handwriting the verses! This is my comfort in my affliction, that your promise gives me life.” Psalm 119:50Read More →

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My elementary art students and I are up to our elbows in paper-mache and we are all loving it! Our art room looks like a zoo complete with visiting guests in various stages of completion. Though by the end of my day I am feeling sick from the combined smell of flour, water, masking tape and newspaper I am thrilled that my students, and their parents too, are getting so much joy from this project! I am so thankful to God for this opportunity He has given me to do two things I love at once – teach and be creative. It is not alwaysRead More →

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In: Grace, It's Just Life, Taking After My Father, Uncategorized

Three trips to the city, a final Bible study meeting, a visit to the school health clinic, a challenging day of painting in my elementary art classes that gave me a terrible headache, a long hot morning watching Caleb compete in Track and Field Day, bread baking, Kids’ Club leading, wedding planning emails that took three hours to write, and a tiny bit of altered book crafting and gardening squeezed in made for an extremely full week. I saw God at work in my busy week! Running late because of the long detour around town, God allowed me to reach the hospital just in timeRead More →

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A long time ago in fourth grade my art teacher taught me how to make a papier-mâché puppet. After a week of refreshing my memory on the process and making an example, Faith and I took all the supplies and went every day to teach a group of Christian young people to make their own puppets. The Lord arranged the schedule, helped me prepare for each day and on the last day of the workshop the students had ten very nice looking puppets. It was a huge blessing to spend a week with these terrific young people and watch as each puppet came to lifeRead More →