Today we get to celebrate Father’s Day for the first time – last year, this day became special and marked a turning point for Scott because I finally let him in on my little secret, and his life changed forever. When we think of “Dad’s Day” you often see...
Dear Samuel Townes - (Little Squish, LoveBug, Sammy T, & T-Ball - you have collected so many different names in such a short time) A year ago today, I was brave enough to confirm what had dawned on me just 2 days prior… You were coming. One day you will...
Memorial Day Weekend has always been one of my favorites – for me it has always signified the beginning of summer, the excitement of lazier days, vacations, good books, cookouts with friends and family, and the beginning of my official countdown to Football Season....
It’s easy to forget that some things are not as they appear. It’s easy to forget because when we turn on the TV; we are constantly bombarded with negative news, covered up with the current crisis, COVID-19 – a silent, invisible enemy…yet most of the time, we do not...
I remember when it was time to renew my driver’s license for the first time, the lady at the desk at the Greensprings DMV in Birmingham asked me, “Do you want to be an organ donor?” I thought, “Sure, why not.” And just like that, my license shows I’m an organ donor....
Have you ever wondered where the saying, “the devil is in the details” comes from? I mean I know for me personally, I love the details and I love data. I have always believed that “the data” doesn’t lie. The data, the numbers, the supporting documentation, the...
Expectation - the strong belief that something will happen or be the case in the future.Have you ever found that sometimes our biggest disappointments and hurts can come from misaligned expectations? Expectations are formed in many different ways - we can set them for...
I was texting with a friend of mine this week whom I talk to every so often and she told me that ‘she has loved reading the stories of how God showed himself through other people and through his word in our lives these past several months. We need more of...
About a month into our stay at the hospital, I said one night "it feels like we live two separate lives. 3/4 of our lives are spent at the hospital and the other 1/4 we spend at our house. Enough time to sleep and hopefully give the pups some love."Yesterday those 2...
Imagine a big ball of yarn, make it multi-colored or one color - your choice. Now imagine you are watching a cat (not one of the Big Cats from Tiger King...but an ordinary cat or kitten) chase the ball of yarn around and untangling it so your ball of yarn becomes more...