Thank you for all of your love and support these past nine months. We are so grateful, and will be praying in thanksgiving today for all of you. Love, Allison, Mike, and John Paul About these ads
Categories: Relationships • Tags: Thanksgiving
It was my first Thanksgiving away from home, with a new family – the large, loud, loving family I’d inherited by marrying my husband nearly a year before. It felt strange to pile into my in-laws car, squeezing between the warm bodies of my husband and sister-in-law as we drove to their grandmother’s house. My family had been small for the past few years (though also loud and loving), and at Thanksgiving we easily fit around one table. At my […]
Categories: Faith • Tags: Christianity, Thanksgiving
John Paul used to snuggle with me all the time, like this: Blissfully often, he would fall asleep on my chest, his tiny mouth open and his little arm curled up towards his face. He loved being as close to me as possible, and would spend hours wrapped tightly to my body, our hearts beating so close to one another’s it was hard to tell which heartbeat was mine and which was his. The only way to get him to […]
Categories: Faith, Parenting • Tags: Christianity, Jesus, Prayer
I love sleeping in. (Correction: I used to love sleeping-in, pre-John Paul that is!) But even in these days of very early mornings, I’m often able to sleep in until a little after seven, as my sweet husband feeds John Paul in the morning and hangs out with him downstairs until he has to start getting ready for work. I am so grateful for the extra time my husband gives me to sleep-in. But lately, I’ve found that waking up […]
Categories: Faith • Tags: Christianity, Life, Prayer
For the past few nights Mike and I have brought John Paul into bed with us. Partially because the nasty cough he has is making us a little nervous, and partially because we haven’t had a chance to lower his crib mattress yet, which is necessary to fix this problem: The other night, as we all laid in bed together, the voices of Mike and I talking awoke John Paul. He popped his head up abruptly, looked at Mike, and […]
Categories: Faith, Parenting • Tags: Christianity, Life
We stood, the three of us, in a crooked row, our arms wrapped around one another, palms flat on each other’s backs. I felt warm with nervousness at the intimacy. And so I concentrated, one deep breath, two deep breaths, then three deep breaths, eyes closed, as if distraction of my mind, and not lack of faith was the problem. Yet, isn’t faith being certain of what we do not see? (Hebrews 11:1) So perhaps the sight of my eyes […]
Categories: Faith • Tags: Christianity, Life, Prayer
