Hello friends! Well our year started with a flurry on January 1st and the busyness has swept us along all the way to now. I remember taking a deep breath at the start of 2015, looking down the calendar at months of David’s speaking engagements, travel for mission conferences, CPC new members’ class, all in addition to homeschooling and normal church ministry and saying, “After the Easter service things will settle down.” Well four days after Easter I can’t say that the dust has settled yet, but aside from some fierce, family-wide pollen allergies, we’re all holding up! We’re thankful for a full, productive winter and love the signs of…

Linda’s cousin Donna and her husband Jim visited from Virginia this weekend and joined us at CPC Sunday morning. Jim is an Anglican rector, and David and John thoroughly enjoyed discussing theology around the campfire with him Sunday night.

Happy 2015, friends! I figured a new year called for a blog facelift, so here you have it. We had a wonderfully restful Christmas and now I can’t believe real life resumes on Monday. The four of us ventured out to the Farmer’s Market late this morning and walked the rest of the way down Main Street to the state house. Our walk was cut short by a cold drizzle so we hurried back for some lunch: tomato bisque soup from the Oak Table, Belgian waffles from the waffle food truck, and we topped it all off with a bag of Cromer’s kettle corn. With numb fingers and toes we…