Jamie Lindtner

One of my favorite things to do is to take pictures.  I mean, I'm always taking pictures with my phone, who isn't?  But I love taking pictures with my camera!  And Easter Sunday always proves to be a fun day for some photo's! Asher is not a huge fan of pictures at the moment.  Let me rephrase that.  He'll take a picture, but only if he is sticking out his tongue or making a mad face or pointing his hiney at me.  These sweet pictures of him smiling are hard to come by!  Maybe I just need to start embracing the silly pictures..  knowing that this stage will pass way to fast. Hannah on the other hand..  loves posing for pictures.  And goodness, I love taking her picture!  She was about 5 days out from splitting her forehead open and needing 4 stitches.  Brave girl.  So, these pictures are special..  I'll look at them and remember those moments of the blood, and deciding if we should take her to the ...

I had planned on blogging through lent.  ya know..  On Holy things.  on God things.  It was lent.  And then life happened..  Life as in Kidney stones and a procedure on my 40th birthday that landed me in the hospital overnight.  And then in the hospital for another 3 days.  And my husband became a single parent..  working, parenting, visiting his wife, parenting some more.  And suddently lent got lost and instead of seeking the holiness in the waiting, I waited for answers and diagnoses and medicine and drs.  Life happens. But maybe, maybe,  that is where the holiness happens too.  Maybe it is in living our life, the ups and downs, the trials and the joys, the unexpected, the turning 40; that we become holy. Maybe it is in the moments when God himself brings the calm in the midst of the storm that we stand amongst holineness.  Perhaps it is in the hours that friends watch your kids so your husband can sleep and t...