Akin family

What do you do when you move to the country and discover that the garbage services in your county do NOT send a truck up your road? And you ...

While I have a couple of loads of laundry to do today (even after yesterday's laundry marathon), I was going to skip and work on other t...

We are Here! After a marathon week of closing, packing, cleaning, moving and cleaning, we are in our home and completely out of the apartme...

I'll be signing off for a few days; probably until Sunday or Monday. Tomorrow we pick up the truck and move as much as we can to the ne...

Welcome to Alabama! Another stormy evening in our part of the world. Mark and I are back at the apartment sitting and watching James Spann...

Plans, plans, plans. Last night when we got to the new home, our plan was to adjust a little, eat supper, and come home. We decided to spend...

What a week! Mark and I closed on our very own house today. Tonight after fixing Dan's car we all went over to the new home and had ou...

Slow blogging week, crazy home week! So much is going on in our family this week and I will post more tomorrow about the BIG news. Last ni...

I really am going to get back to the sermons/lessons that I have heard Friday and Sunday, but today is Monday, so it's memory verse day....

I hope you are having a blessed Easter today. Christ is Risen!

I have a very dear friend who asked me years ago to share with her our family's traditions for Christmas and Easter. We do have a few t...

I started writing about Sunday's sermons and Mark suggested that I re-work what I was trying to say, so I'll work on that and instea...

Five Days. Oh well; I'm trying! Yesterday was a wonderful Palm Sunday for Mark and Dan and I and I want to share some of that with you...

I don't really have anything significant or interesting to say today but I am trying to post more regularly, so I thought I would post a...

Have you ever been to church or Sunday School when the preacher was doing a series on the book of John's Revelation? It can be a very c...

A while back I talked a little bit about stewardship and how it is not just the way we spend our money but affects every area of life. This...

We got home safely from North Carolina without any major weather hassles. What a relief! Saturday was a big day, the day our Emily married...

Last day in Durham! Mark is off taking a test to finish up this week of classes and I have got to finish packing up the room so we can hit ...

How do they do it? How do these ladies and gentlemen who have blogs and children and a life still manage to post on a blog EVERY SINGLE D...

At long last, here are the snow pictures. This past weekend it was up into the 70's, daffodils, forsythia, bradford pears and cherry bl...