The following entry was originally written for the New Horizons for Children Blog and can be found here. Yesterday, I went to the county fair with some good friends. While waiting for our boys to get off a ride, my friend’s 11-year-old daughter was entertaining us. Speaking with a spot-on Eastern European accent, she was…
Monthly Archives: August 2013
Fifteen Days Gone
We are going camping today. I’m trying to pack, and all I see is the differences from last time. The time when he was here. Now, there’s only one bathing suit. One bike. One scooter. One boy. I know that I will sit by the fire and all I will see is the empty chair…
On Leaping and Loving
Yesterday, I had a visitor: my friend Megan. We met in college and were friends, but our friendship has grown more over the past several years through Facebook and our shared love of all things Steelers, NCIS, LL Cool J, and fantasy football. This year I know I’m taking the trophy in our league. I’m…
Give Your Junk, Help a Child
Every hosting, New Horizons for Children asks the host families to write a promise of God on a piece of cardboard and take a picture of the child with it. They make a wonderful video of all the children holding the truths they have learned in their time here. Here is the video from last…
How My Child Became OUR Child
Have you ever watched someone fall in love? Had that moment when you look at two people and you just know that they are meant to be together, even if they don’t know it yet themselves? That happened to me this summer. Soccer Boy and my friend Stephanie fell in love. I knew it at…
First Day Gone
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up…
