What’s New with Stephanie
This is where I share what I’ve been thinking about, walking through, or learning lately.
Memories
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The Aforementioned Pivot (5-22-26 Update)
Remember the blog Pivoting in Place? I told you something was coming and you’d learn more over the next days, weeks, months? …that there were workshops and services I was cultivating and couldn’t wait to share? Well, This is the pivot I was talking about. If you don’t want the life updates, jump skip to…
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I’m a Scrapbooker?
At some point along the way, someone invited me to a scrapbooking party. This was back when Creative Memories was becoming a thing. My oldest was maybe 18 months old, and I thought: “This is great. I can preserve our memories. I can do something meaningful with all these pictures.” So I went to the…
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Gifting a Hobby (or cameras everywhere!)
My dad didn’t just buy a camera. He bought a door. And opened it to possibility. This was his first grandchild. And suddenly, photography wasn’t just interesting—it was important. So when my parents came to visit, they didn’t just take a few pictures. They took pictures of everything. The baby looking left.The baby looking right.The…
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The Cusp of the Camera Shift
Did you grow up like me? Right on the edge of something shifting, or developing (pun intended). Not dramatically. Not all at once. But quietly… and then all at once. See if this sounds familiar: Cameras were always around when I was growing up. The kind where you loaded a roll of film and had…
Life & Family
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About The Early Years
As I’m writing this, my youngest son is entering his sophomore of university, studying engineering. He hadn’t turned one when I started blogging, and the youngest of the children was yet to be born. My oldest two are now married and we’re still homeschooling. It’s been 19 years since the first 2007 blog post in…
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Vertig-oh-no!
It was the last week of June. My son stood up from the sofa and got wobbly, saying “I stood up too fast!” Not 5 minutes later, same thing happened to me. Then, on my way up the stairs, I lost my balance and fell into the wall. I knew my ear was not draining…
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The Aforementioned Pivot (5-22-26 Update)
Remember the blog Pivoting in Place? I told you something was coming and you’d learn more over the next days, weeks, months? …that there were workshops and services I was cultivating and couldn’t wait to share? Well, This is the pivot I was talking about. If you don’t want the life updates, jump skip to…
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Tapestry of Trees
A tapestry usually functions as a wall-hanging, and traditionally is handwoven. Since 2022, I’ve done a lot of driving hither and yon. To be fair, with children in traveling basketball for over 15 years, I’ve done a lot of driving since 2009. But my daddy relocated to heaven in 2022 and it’s only since then…
Faith
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The Crew (March 13, 2013)
Estimated Reading Time: 2-3 minutes. My sister has a group of people she calls The Crew. For years they met weekly for brunch to catch up. I never knew exactly what they had to catch up on since they were a social entity, going everywhere together except to sleep and to work. Seriously,…
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Divine Intervention (August 1, 2010)
That’s what my aunt said to me when I said, “But how did you…?” I queried as my aunt announced she was sipping coffee in the hotel not half a mile from our home (I was in the hospital lobby freaking out about an unexpected medical procedure that I’d wanted to avoid). “Divine intervention, sweetie!”…
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Re-gifting: a new perspective (December 22, 2008)
Yesterday I was invited to see regifting from an entirely new vantagepoint. Jesus is the gift that can be regifted. The pastor said it in the message on Sunday. What an interesting concept, I thought. Regifting Jesus. He’s right! Jesus was a gift – from God! It says so in John 3:16: he GAVE his…
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God in the details… (September 5, 2007)
He really is in EVERY detail. We’ve just returned from Family Camp, a venture that I pressed hard to have for our family, and one that I think I resisted gaining the most from. I wonder about myself sometimes. I want so much, but am too lazy to do the work to get it. I…
Education
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The Night Before
It’s the night before we take our fourth child to the campus of his college. Or is it the night before our fourth son embarks on his college journey? Both are true. The first is about me and how I’m feeling. The other is about him. Same space of time. Same people in the house.…
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Science Museum & Plastic Surgery (March 23, 2007)
We had quite a wonderful day at the science museum yesterday. The littles learned a lot (had to make the alliterative sentence there, you know). We were there with an admired homeschool friend, G. She’s 18 and mine are 7 and under. So she’s a MAJOR hero in their world. Toward the end of our…
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Spring Sailing (March 21, 2007)
It’s a bit dreary here weather wise, but we’re having a blast. While at moms’ group today, G pulled at his ear with a bit of fussiness. Yes, he’s only 4 months and yes, that was only the second ear tug in 18 hours, but I’m an ear-infection nazi, so I called the chiro right…
The Early Years
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About The Early Years
As I’m writing this, my youngest son is entering his sophomore of university, studying engineering. He hadn’t turned one when I started blogging, and the youngest of the children was yet to be born. My oldest two are now married and we’re still homeschooling. It’s been 19 years since the first 2007 blog post in…
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Don’t worry, be-… (September 23, 2013)
Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. Jesus said that. I read it today. I needed it. Such impact when I read it, thought I’d share in case you needed it, too. By the way, it’s John 14:1. When you saw the heading, you thought I was going to…
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I’m Younger (July 24, 2013)
For every high school graduation I’m invited to, I decided years ago, I am another year younger. I should be back in my mother’s womb by now, I suppose. Doesn’t matter how much I want to stop time…or at least spray retardant on it…it keeps accelerating. Apparently, so does my daughter’s speaking ability, cute factor,…
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Hello, my name is Chubby. (July 22, 2013)
Remember the “Hello, my name is Chubby” silliness we did as chidlren with our cheeks pushed forward? I thought of it today because there’s one version of a “Chubby” that has Chubby on a motorcycle with his dad and the wind knocks back his pinchable cheeks as he yells “Too, fast, Daddy!” Well, I heard…