Shotsnaps

It's hard to believe, and time's flown so fast, but Henry and Mildred have been man and wife for nearly six months.  (All photos abo...

Well, Dad--  If old habits die hard, you bear some blame  when I take the bait,  open my mouth, and let hounds race baying from my lips. But...

Overheard upstairs this morning while Cadence and Skylark were cleaning the room five children share: Cadence, frustrated with her little si...

This one's for  you. I haven't even posted LAST year's Hallowe'en costumes, but here's this year's Hallowe'en gi...

 ..for this wonderful and one-of-kind woman. We celebrated our beloved Grandma Owen's 75th birthday a few weeks early this past Saturday...

October 6th! I would never and could never have dreamed this: our children, our girls and their husbands, our grandbabies. I'm grateful ...

 Today during church Lark started sobbing because she misses Annika. This happens every so often. Then tonight at supper, when we were discu...

 A daughter just informed me that when someone at a coffeehouse last night asked Zeke what grade he was in, he replied, "I'm going ...

I bind unto myself to-day,  The pow'r of God to hold, and lead,  His eye to watch, His might to stay,  His ear to hearken to my need  Th...

  What kind of dummy-head impulsively buys six gallons of paint to repaint half their downstairs without bringing any paint chips home first...

 Ransom just washed his hands and ran to me, "Mama! I saw a 'pider next to the sink!" I asked if it was a Daddy Longlegs, and ...