Chapter 14: Faith Like A Child In the summer of 2016, our family had the opportunity to visit northern France to make a pilgrimage to the birthplace and tomb of Saint Therese of Lisieux. Courtney and I feel a great gratitude to Saint Therese for her intercession in our relationship, and as Ellie s patron saint [...]

Chapter 14: Faith Like A Child In the summer of 2016, our family had the opportunity to visit northern France to make a pilgrimage to the birthplace and tomb of Saint Therese of Lisieux. Courtney and I feel a great gratitude to Saint Therese for her intercession in our relationship, and as Ellie s patron saint [...]

Chapter 13: Puzzles and Suffering I know that most of you people are probably offended when someone makes generalizations about entire groups of people, but Austrians are really good at taking care of their stuff. (As a side note, I don t generally generalize, nor do I support the habit in others. I thought it would [...]

Chapter 13: Puzzles and Suffering I know that most of you people are probably offended when someone makes generalizations about entire groups of people, but Austrians are really good at taking care of their stuff. (As a side note, I don t generally generalize, nor do I support the habit in others. I thought it would [...]

Chapter 12: On Our Side I ve found that part of parenting is making a huge deal out of seemingly insignificant events in the lives of our children. We ve all had the painful experience of having to listen to parents ramble on about their little geniuses or insist on showing you their little brat s macaroni art; [...]

Chapter 12: On Our Side I ve found that part of parenting is making a huge deal out of seemingly insignificant events in the lives of our children. We ve all had the painful experience of having to listen to parents ramble on about their little geniuses or insist on showing you their little brat s macaroni art; [...]

Chapter 11: Paper Scraps and Worship Kids are pretty terrible at keeping secrets. Maybe this is why they re not typically hired to do intelligence work. For Christmas this past year, both Ellie and Francis made a gift for Courtney and I at their school. The gift each kid made was a battery-operated light made to look [...]

Chapter 11: Paper Scraps and Worship Kids are pretty terrible at keeping secrets. Maybe this is why they re not typically hired to do intelligence work. For Christmas this past year, both Ellie and Francis made a gift for Courtney and I at their school. The gift each kid made was a battery-operated light made to look [...]

Chapter 10: Just Go To Sleep Last night was rough. The night started off strong as Courtney and I lucked out with a dinner that everyone ate without complaining. After cleaning up the pieces of food that Isaac finally rejected after several rounds of taste testing, we let the kids play for a few minutes [...]

Chapter 10: Just Go To Sleep Last night was rough. The night started off strong as Courtney and I lucked out with a dinner that everyone ate without complaining. After cleaning up the pieces of food that Isaac finally rejected after several rounds of taste testing, we let the kids play for a few minutes [...]