Wednesday, February 8, 2012

title pic #prayersforanissa :: A City on our Knees

Posted by Alli on November 20, 2009

When we drive around town, I usually have the radio on and it is usually tuned to J103, the local CCM station. One rather popular song that keeps popping up in their playlist is Praise You in this Storm by Casting Crowns. The lyrics are very moving and calming- reminding me that where ever the [...]

title pic Being true to myself :: I’m a blogger

Posted by Alli on November 5, 2009

So, I decided to try and think about the things I know about myself in an effort to answer “Who am I?” question. And one of the areas of my life- one of the true things about me- is my online life. The blogging, the twittering, the facebooking, and the DIGITAL MOM part of my [...]

title pic Fall Flare

Posted by Alli on November 3, 2009

Yesterday morning I looked out the backdoor and stared at the mountain, peering at the colors of the trees and wondering, “Is it today?” I always worry I might miss the peak of Fall colors and with all the rain we had recently it would be very easy for the leaves to change and then [...]

title pic Reintroduction

Posted by Alli on November 2, 2009

Next Monday I am turning 33. My birthday always gives me a sense of excitement and entitlement. I always want it to be about me, me, me. From the moment I wake up, I desire to have everyone around shower me with love, attention, affection, and gifts. Honestly, it doesn’t ever really work out that [...]

title pic Top Ten Tuesdays :: Things I like about my house

Posted by Alli on October 27, 2009

Last Friday, Damon and a friend participated in Camp Out to Stamp Out Homelessness. It was put together by our local Interfaith Hospitality Network, a homeless ministry our church is heavily involved in. While it was fun for Damon and Dave, they got to make things out of cardboard (they did a tailgate area) and [...]

title pic Fall Break

Posted by Alli on October 20, 2009

Our family had an awesome weekend. And when we got home, well, I took one look around and realized it was time for a break. As the mom who organizes a lot of things around here, I have been trying to prioritize the cake ingredients in order make school number one every day. Another homeschool [...]

title pic A random encounter

Posted by Alli on October 8, 2009

A few minutes after The Office finished airing tonight, we had a visitor at our front door. It was a woman we had never seen before and she was looking for her husband. She told us her fear of drugs, alcohol, another woman, and that she was going to find her husband dead. Thing was, [...]

title pic Five years of motherhood

Posted by Alli on October 5, 2009

What five years of motherhood looks like. Fuller turned five today. This means I have been a mother for five years. I wanted to be a mother for such a long time. I knew I wanted to be a mom before I knew I wanted to be married. I even had grand plans to be [...]

title pic My Type A Mom Come to Jesus Moment

Posted by Alli on September 29, 2009

I’ve been home for three days now and I’m still overwhelmed with organizing my thoughts about the Type A Mom Conference. But, I’m going to give it a go. The conference was well organized with lots of intriguing sessions and very smart people on panels. Some of these people I knew of via the blogosphere/ [...]

title pic considering fat acceptance

Posted by Alli on September 15, 2009

I went to the doctor a few weeks ago for a physical. It was my first non-ob visit since Tebow was born AND since I had quit nursing in the last couple of months, I was going in with out baby-related excuses. I was going in to see exactly where I stood in Health category [...]