Happy third anniversary to daughter Loretta and Dustin on Oct. 1! I wish them many more happy, healthy years together. It is still so hard for me to believe five out of our eight children are married ...

Nothing in life happens without some motivation and effort. We have been blessed with an ample amount of work in the furniture shop these days. My husband Daniel and brother, Javin, who are co-owners ...

There is a lot more activity going around here this morning since six of our children are home from school on spring break. Makes it a little harder for me to concentrate and sit down to write this ...

I am sitting here drinking coffee and enjoying a piece of zucchini coffee cake that a lady from our church district dropped off here for us. It is delicious, and I would like to ask her for the recipe ...

It is Tuesday evening. I’m sitting out here on the front porch and it is very quiet, almost too quiet. My sisters Verena and Susan wanted our 5 school-age children to come off the bus there and spend ...