About fourteen years ago, I did something totally out of character for me. I agreed to go on a two-week mission trip without my husband. Our destination? Mongolia. It’s truly on the other side of the world. It was out of character because we always did things like that together. Well, at least on my …
12 Days of Christmas {Gifts} – Day 11
My husband loves peanut butter. He’s kind of a snob about it, though. He only likes JIF. Any other brand is sub-par in his opinion. Our girls know this and always apologize if they only have the Aldi brand in the pantry when he visits (or in the case of our overseas daughter, something called …
12 Days of Christmas {Gifts} – Day 10
The other day I was watching a show about government agents conspiring to infiltrate the home of a very rich criminal; the purpose was to steal a biological weapon he was planning to sell. They couldn’t simply walk up and try to arrest him as his house was heavily guarded. Their strategy was for their …
12 Days of Christmas {Gifts} – Day 9
My husband loves to play golf, but I think he actually loves buying and selling golf clubs more. I think it’s because deep down there’s a belief that if he can just get the perfect set his game will improve. (He denies this.) He’s quite good at trading in and trading up; he only buys …
12 Days of Christmas {Gifts} – Day 8
While my husband and I were out and about recently, we passed another construction site advertising a new storage facility that was being built. Have you noticed there are a lot of them around? I looked up some statistics. According to one website, there are more than 49,000 storage facilities in the United States – …