This month is positive encouragement month. We wondered the other day, as a family, why it is positive encouragement month, isn’t encouragement always positive? But we realized that the word could be used in different ways. Encouragement can be used as in heartening or cheering up. The dictionary defines it as “the action of giving someone support, […]
When one has had the privilege of putting in around eighty years of wear and tear on these bones, there are many milestones that have passed by. Most of my (Kent) milestones of my younger years were spread out between California, Colorado, and Washington State, living in (+/-) fourteen places and attending nine different grade schools. Whereas, […]
1990 Let’s kick things off with my (Shaun) first milestone- my birth. October 17th 1990 I was born in “sunny” England, the place I would call home for the next 26 and a half years. Next milestone… 1993 As you may have guessed, 1993 was the year I (Elisabeth) was born. May 16th, I was born […]
Where It All Began It all starts back in June of 1991 when I was born. For the first seven years of my life, I lived in Wekerom, The Netherlands. I don’t remember much from back then, but I do remember the house and what it looked like inside and out. Fun Fact: I could probably draw […]
Googling the word milestone will get you a quick definition of the word. Physically it is defined as a marker found along the roadside which gives the distance either from or to a given point. However, it is also often used in a more figurative sense, as conveying an important event in one’s life, in history, even […]
Family fun. Where to start is the question. Over my 26 years of life there have been plenty of opportunities where my family and I have had fun. Now to remember a few highlights. Back when we lived in Holland, there were two things that stood out to me and I enjoyed the most: Rummage Sales Every […]
Don’t you love going on road trips? Well I do! I think road trips are the best! It doesn’t make any difference to me whether the trips are long or short, I like them all. A Long Road Trip At least once a year we go on a very long road trip. The family packs half […]
Summer is almost over, but there’s still plenty of time to get together with the family and have some fun! Not sure what to do? Let me share some of my favorite things we did as a family growing up…and some that we still (attempt to) do. Road Trips One major thing I can remember about […]
So, it’s been a while since we had a blog post and it’s my turn this time to kick start things off with our new topic of the month: “family fun”. I find myself hugely blessed in this area as the Lord has given me not one, not two, but three distinct families. First up, we have […]
We have come to the end of our question and answer series! We hope that you have learned a lot and it has been beneficial for you. We will be taking a short break at this point as there are some big changes happening within the family and business. If you want to follow along with […]