Fay can speak so well these days! She is always using new phrases that totally blow me away. Like yesterday, I was telling her to put her shoes on so that we could go to the playground and she said, “No. I want to go barefoot.” Couldn’t have said it better myself, Fay!  But as […]

We’ve been spending a lot of time inside for the past few weeks. We got a good amount of snow, and UNC even closed down a few times. The public school kids were out of school for essentially two solid weeks! We did take advantage of the snow on the day that it really came […]

I love Valentine’s Day! I have always had positive feelings about it, even for the several years where I was as single as a nun. I attribute that, in part, to the fact that my mom always made it a fun day for us kids by having a fancy dinner with the table all decorated […]

Things around here have been a little crazy. Since about April 21 of last year. Okay let’s be real, more like since May 7 of 2012. Alright, fine! Realistically speaking, my life has been more or less a story of crazy since July 24, 1990. Fortunately for us, however, I’m holding on by providing my […]

We have finally started the new year!  We were in denial about vacation ending all the way up until this past week, it seems.  Anyway, here is a little bit of what went on during our second month of vacation! We started our year off right by partying with some friends and eating lots of […]

The week of Christmas was so fun! We did our last minute purchases (like we finally got ourselves some eggnog!), we did some fun Christmasy things, and we hung out with cool people! In Durham, they have what’s called “The Triangle Christmas Tree Challenge.” A bunch of businesses and charities and churches and stuff decorate […]

I love Christmastime so much! And this year seems extra special because I feel like I am really coming to understand the principle that “the Christmas Spirit is the Christ Spirit.” We still have all sorts of gifts to secure, and we aren’t very lavishly decorated this year, but I feel like I am thinking more […]

Thanksgiving is such a fantastic holiday! I feel like it is so perfect that a day devoted to giving thanks is also the kick-off to the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ! We have no greater blessing than God’s gift of His Son! And I am going to take this opportunity to say that […]

I can’t believe we are half way through November already!  Thanksgiving is NEXT WEEK! Josh has two fly-out interviews in the next month (one in Salt Lake, and one in San Francisco)! There are only two more weeks of classes! It’s all just so exciting! (Especially the part about school being close to over!) We […]

So, this January, when we made our goal to stay up-to-date on the blog, the goal was to do an entry at least weekly.  Obviously, that hasn’t been the case of late. Here’s why. Josh has a really tough semester this time around. He basically ALWAYS has at least one thing he should be working […]