With Great Joy

I'm sneaking into this space today to write. We celebrated Isaac yesterday.  He is 16.  I cannot even begin to tell you how strang...

Imagine with me, if you will, a woman with rich brown skin and tight black curls, aged and graying, narrating the story of her people to you...

Over dinner tonight, Isaac (13), asked us all, " If you could choose your favorite thing to eat for each meal of the day, what would yo...

Okay, I've had more than a few of you mention that it's been a long time since you've seen pictures of the kids and that they ar...

I had a homeschooling post due to go up today, but my heart isn't in it. On Monday, my beloved grandpa Jake died.   He now rests exact...

Hello, sweet friends! How are you all today? We are well.  I actually came down with some weird virus Friday night, so I spent all of Sa...

One of the things I've been researching over the past several weeks due to Isaac's health issues- is the whole idea of going gluten-...

Look, photos!  (I just uploaded them straight into blogger ( thank you, Tamara , for the idea ), so the technical issues with Flickr/Yahoo r...

Everyone, look !  Right above these words.  The title of this post does not say What's going on with Isaac? (!!!!) I will briefly u...

The GI called me with Isaac's biopsy results yesterday.  He said that it's all great news.  All the biopsy samples that he took from...

All these posts about Isaac have been taking over the blog.  I'm sorry. It's sort of taken over our lives, too.  We haven't do...

Hello, friends~ It's nearly 10 o'clock and it's been an especially long day.  I'm checking in tonight to give you an updat...

Well.  I do hope we can find out what's going on with Isaac.  The Endoscopy and Colonoscopy procedures are scheduled for Tuesday after...

{photo from last month's visit to the daffodil fields} Hello, friends~ Thank you to those of you who have followed up to see how I...

Part 1 . Part 2 . Part 3: I left off describing our night and Isaac's pain, but I want to back up a bit and talk about the mention ...

So.  If you're following along from Part 1 , you know we're going to try to get Isaac in to see the doctor on Monday.  Monday mornin...

I have been waiting for a window of time to be able to sit and write about our Isaac (12), and some of the health issues he's been facin...