on the edge of ordinary

This week marks the end of an era. Nearly 13 years ago our eldest son became a teenager and this week his youngest brother turned 20, though...

On Saturday our eldest son got married. I have not been as close to a wedding since my own 27 years ago. It was a very special experience!  ...

My husband, David, finished school two weeks ago for the Christmas-New Year holidays and since then life has slowed down a bit. We’ve been s...

Eleven days after his brother moved out, our 21 y.o. also moved into his own place. It's a shorter story than " Part one ". He...

Image by  Gordon Johnson  from  Pixabay It is my habit at the start of January to look ahead to the next 12 months in my first blog post of ...

We have reached an interesting point in our careers. A point where people saying, "Wow, 23 years is a long time to serve." But the...

This has been an interesting week, and not as quiet as my written schedule might lead you to believe. I think I'd been settling just a l...

This is a different home assignment to any we've done before this. Mainly because we've got older kids who aren't in school anym...

Birthday cheesecake. A very rare occasion when I didn’t make it myself!  It’s only been ten days since I last wrote, but a lot has happened ...

Every time we’ve come on home assignment (this is our fifth) I’ve made a photo album about our recent term of service to share with people. ...

 Moving into a new chapter in our lives isn’t without pain. I know that the changes we’re going through right now are necessary to move into...