The Best Part of Halloween

This is what we’ll be doing tonight. Happy Halloween! 1 Comment

October 27, 2014June 13, 2016

Dear Daughter, True Love is Hard. But Falling in Love is Easy.

Dear Daughter, Falling in Love is Easy, but true love is hard.

By Eve Tuft I had Eve in mind to write this post for a long time now. She mentions this in her post, but once upon a time when Eve still lived in Iowa (boo- come back!), she and I worked with the youth together. She gave a lesson one time to the teenage girls and asked “Do you think it’s easy to fall in love?” And thinking the answer was going to be, “No! Marriage is HARD!” They all chimed, “No” And Eve was all “Heck yes it’s easy to fall in love!! It’s hard to STAY in love.”… Read More

October 25, 2014June 13, 2016

The 3 Worst Things You Can Do When You’re Wrong

By Rich Hey. Look. I’m going to try and break this to you gently. You and I both know that generally, you’re a good spouse. You usually pay attention to your partner’s needs. You are pretty good about keeping calm and even when your spouse does something that you wouldn’t do a lot of the time you remember that, hey, it’s not that big a deal. But more important than that, you do a good job (again, usually this is true!) of making your spouse feel loved and important, letting them know that you value their opinion and you consider… Read More

October 23, 2014January 22, 2016

This is What True Love Looks Like

By Celeste This was yesterday at the apple orchard. We had walked so far and were just sure there was a bridge here…. There wasn’t. So instead of walking all that way back, Rich courageously braved the freezing water carrying our family across. Marry well my friends- you never know when you’ll need to be carted across an icy river of death. 6 Comments