Tulips and Rembrandts

A blogger I follow posted the link to this video and it's a priceless tutorial on the difference between sympathy and empathy by the br...

Hello Friends and Family, After such a long season of quiet, the end of 2013 provides a lovely opportunity for a family update! Since...

What a day. I woke up at 5:50am with the lyrics to Tim Hughes' "Oh Happy Day" in my head. Strange. But I couldn't shake ...

Someone knew us. Someone knew that capturing moments and people we love on film might be called my "love language". Someone kn...

Last April, Matt traveled to New Orleans for a medical conference and happened to walk by a studio hosting an exhibit by Mitchell Lonas , a...

For months, I've had nothing to say. I couldn't name what was happening inside for anyone else. The sheer intensity of life and try...

Thanksgiving weekend marked six months since Ava's death. Far from feeling grateful, I felt overcome. For weeks I'd sensed I was slo...

This weekend, while I sat with Elizabeth in the hospital, three friends came one after the other with hugs, encouragement, prayers, Q'do...

With two days of negative blood cultures under her belt, Elizabeth was discharged this afternoon on oral antibiotics! Thank you all for your...

We'd appreciate your prayers for Eliza-bug. After a high fever with no clear source, we got bloodwork done yesterday and this morning sh...

When it is dark and only a sliver of the moon is showing, what do you know? You know that, though you cannot see it, the moon is round. ...

I don't know what to write. Every day I'm on empty. I pour out what I have, and He fills, and yet every day I'm here again. Mo...

Last spring, we were approached by our church, The Journey , with the idea of creating a video about God's faithfulness to our fami...

School officially started two weeks ago.  Sweet Elizabeth spiked a fever during breakfast. No school for her, no first day pictures for me. ...

Tonight, the girls finished one of our favorite activities of the summer. I shamelessly stole the idea from my dear friend Adrienne when we ...

Last week was a challenge. Nothing extreme, but intense nonetheless. A cranky toddler with a fixation on tormenting her sisters. A si...

Two years ago we were delighted to meet Sarah from Freshblend Media , when she took our family pictures. When they heard about Ava's dia...

Our nephew, Jonas (pronounced "YOnas") Kallenberger was born today, after only 27 weeks and two days--such a short time--with his ...

The sun comes up It's a new day dawning It's time to sing your song again Whatever may pass and whatever lies before me Let me b...