Over the past few weeks, I’ve started to write many blog posts in my head. The ideas start and then life interrupts. Tonight, I am sitting down to begin to make sense of it all. Our life now. Our new life with a teenage boy. Recently, we were interviewed by our local news station about...
Three years ago today, I married the love of my life. In the last three years, we have traveled all over the world, grown our small businesses, made our house a home, loved on children in Africa, and heard God calling us to more, all while falling more in love with each other. Chris is...
For several months now, we have had a little something going on in our lives. Mostly, we’ve kept it to ourselves because we didn’t know how it would work out. But all along, God has been blazing a path ahead of us. On those nights when I could not understand why we were waiting so...
The Christmas season is upon us. We are surrounded by advertisements, flashy store displays, temptations to buy the newest, latest and greatest. Told that we need more stuff. That giving stuff to our family is the way that we show our love. That this new stuff will make us happy. I really don’t remember what...
Every year, on the day after Thanksgiving, we load up the whole Verme crew and head out to the Christmas tree farm. I had never had a real Christmas tree before I met Chris and I have grown to love this tradition. Each year we take a family photo and each year the family grows...
