According to Plan

How often do your plans play out exactly as you imagined them? Probably not very often, unless its how your toast turns out every morning, and even then there is some variability.  Even if they don’t turn out exactly as planned, often things still turn out ok,...

Decision Tree

This past week has been fairly eventful in my little world.  We plan to leave in a couple days for our first out of state family trip in several years.  It’s not an extravagant trip, but it does take some planning as to when and where to go, coordinating hotels,...

Homeward Bound

My eight year old son left for camp for the first time yesterday.  He has been looking forward to this for some time and is going with a few friends from church, so we have been optimistic as to how it will go.  He has stayed away from home with his sister at his...

For Granted

  Have you ever done without something for so long that you just accept it as a new normal?  Over the past 5 years, due to a new child and some other factors, I developed some patterns of sleep that have been so unnatural, that a solid 8 hour night of sleep...

Worthwhile

I’ve heard a lot of talk the past couple days about a group of men who are lost at sea, or somewhere in the sea.  Five rich men were on an adventure to travel in an experimental submersible craft to see the wreck of the Titanic when communication was lost with the...