Chloe Elizabeth KrosschellJune 5, 1993 ✟ I don’t know what caused me to go to my hutch and take out the little mahogany box. Maybe it’s the fact that today was her due date (October 16, 1993). I was so excited to be having a little girl, and what better month for a...
When you look up the phrase ‘warm fuzzy,’ I think this is the picture that should pop up! It’s chilly here in Iowa so I turned on the fireplace and draped this pretty blanket over my legs to be cozy while I sit with the LORD. It didn’t take long for Cora to find me....
This old green chair has been a front-row seat witnessing the good, the bad and the ugly of our lives. Super Bowl championships, comforting sick babies, recovering from surgery (with a bag of frozen peas to keep the swelling at bay!), time outs, times of prayer, movie...
First of all, I need to say our marriage didn’t start out with us praying together. We usually avoided talking about anything spiritual at all. Truthfully, our marriage was in trouble. We were both doing our own thing and going our way. We had moved to Sioux Center,...
I remember the first time I felt it. I was on a run with my sister-in-law. It was one of those perfect Minnesota days where the sun was warm and the air was cold. But my legs were tired and my lungs were burning. We had set out to run 4 miles, and we had plans to go...
I have to admit when I shared this with a couple of friends just a couple months after I had lost Bill I really didn’t intend for it to be shared with any more than those two people. But since I’m doing this series on marriage and this was my advice to them, I really...