Monthly Archive for April, 2008

“Serial Foster Parents”

Wray and I have been foster parents for almost 15 years now! We’ve had over 50 children in our home. We were asked to speak at the Tapestry Meeting at Irving Bible Church. Tapestry is an awesome group of people who encourage and support foster and adoptive families. (www.tapestry.irvingbible.org) Michael and Amy Munroe started this [...]

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Jack

Some children are just funny!  That is my friend Jack!  He has a terrific sense of humor, a wild imagination, and is smart as a whip.  He makes me laugh.  If I were to ever write a book about funny things children have done or said, Jack would be a chapter unto himself.
My favorite happened at [...]

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For the love of Africa

Last summer I spent an incredible three weeks in the Sudan.  I learned about mission opportunities in a worship service at Irving Bible Church, and decided to see what kind of things they would be doing.  “Teaching teachers” seemed right up my alley, after all, I had not only been a teacher, but worked as [...]

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Thanks Marina!!!

Marina Simmons designed my blog!!  It is so adorable and I am so grateful that she is making me look like I know what I am doing!  You have to admit — even if the content of my articles is bad, Marina has made me look good!!!  Thanks girl, I love it!  She has a great [...]

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Up until a couple of months ago I didn’t know what a blog was or how one goes about blogging.  My daughter in law Mindy started “blogging”, so I added it to my favs so that I could see what she was up to.  Then I realized it’s like an online diary—kinda!  After seeing how [...]

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