Someone I greatly respect once said, “Everybody’s praying for a blessing, but it’s rare that money just falls into your lap. Sometimes getting a blessing means you’ve gotta put on your work boots and get dirty earning it.” That’s probably not an exact quote, but what he’s saying is so true. I’ve been pretty transparent about …
Category Archives: Zach’s Zone
Freshman
Zach, on his first day of kindergarten, August 11, 2003: And on his first day of high school, August 21, 2012: And I have no clue where the time went…I blinked and my boy was a young man. “I would have given anything to keep [him] little. They outgrow us so much faster than we …
Zach’s Zone: Descriptive Writing
Zach had a language arts assignment to look at a painting and “paint” a word picture about it. He chose a painting I did a few years ago entitled “My Favorite Things.” Here’s the picture, and here’s what he wrote: A yellow cat sits upon a dark purple chair. A royal blue blanket lays upon …
Zach’s Zone: Alveoli
My awesome oldest boy, Zachary, has casually mentioned a few times that he does not have a special category on my blog. And I’ve decided to change that. So, welcome to Zach’s Zone. It pains me to think that I might’ve hurt his feelings by having a Moments with Eli category, but nothing dedicated to …