ThanksWeek: Choosing Life
ThanksWeek rolls on here at the blog, where I’m dusting off some old posts and sharing them one more time. Today’s gratitude check? My daughter. And my daughter’s birth parents. Here’s their story, which originally...
Category: Purely Personal
ThanksWeek: Ten Years
It’s ThanksWeek here on the blog, where I reach back into the archives and pull out some of my favorite posts of gratitude (which would be an awesome name for a Bibleman weapon: “Step back,...
Flashback Friday: Defining Insanity
Every Friday we jump in the Wayback Machine so that I don’t have to come up with fresh content. Today we jump in the WayWayWAYback Machine, dredging up a post from nearly four years ago....
Embracing Awkwardness
Alright, blogosphere, we have a serious matter to discuss. Grab some coffee. Clear your minds. Focus on the topic at hand: Hugging a complete stranger. A bit of background: Merriem and I are new to...
Flashback Friday: Fried Cheese, How I Love Thee
It’s State Fair time in North Carolina again…the time when you load up your family in the minivan, head down I-40, and embark on a fun-filled evening of applying hand sanitizer to every square inch...
Adventures in the ER
Last night Merriem and I added item #420 to our We-Didn’t-Really-Want-To-Do-This-As-A-Parent Bucket List. We took child number four to our friendly neighborhood emergency room. As you may know, child number four is two years old and what...
The Eyes Have It
On Saturday, I snapped this picture of my little girl and posted it on the Twitter. (You should probably follow me over there since I’m always launching hurricanes of cuteness like this.) It was a...
Have. Mercy.
While we were listening to Sunday School bells in West Tennessee this weekend, we took a few minutes hours for a photo shoot with our Official Franks Family Photographer. Robin has been shooting our kids for...
For Whom The Sunday School Bell Tolls
This weekend Merriem and I got to catch up with some of our oldest friends on the planet. Not Methuselah-style old friends, but friends-since-college friends. Mike Waddey and I were roommates back in the day,...
Death By Ikea
If you don’t have a life, you may have noticed that this blog has been sporadic and quiet of late. I would like to be able to report that it is for some noble cause...
