When we started our school year back in August, I posted what we were doing for the year (at the end of the post). Now it seems appropriate to give a year-end review to let you know how things went! First of all, the year took an unexpected turn when I found out I was expecting in mid-September. I found myself exhausted to the core…
Introducing Our New Addition!
I’m currently laying in bed next to our beautiful little baby boy, Micah Jonathan. He was born last night, and now I’m going to write my final birth story. **Warning, following is the birth story of our little Micah. There is some typical birth-style graphic content.** Well, first of all, our birth journey – like all journeys – didn’t start here. It started 9 months…
Embracing Simplicity
Last week I did something I never thought I’d do – I drove to Washington with my 4 kids, 34 weeks pregnant, without Mark. I was missing a good friend, and the time away sounded like exactly what I needed before this baby makes his appearance. The trip was fantastic – the kids were content during the drive and I managed to stay awake with…
The Closing of a Chapter
This week marks the closing of a chapter of my life. My husband is getting a vasectomy. For the past 8 years, my life has been consumed by motherhood. And this has been one of the greatest blessings I have ever known! Through my children, I have learned so much about myself and grown in character more than I ever would have imagined possible. For…
Celebrating Our Messiah’s Resurrection
This week our family has been celebrating Passover, and it’s been a lovely week! It started out with us hosting our first community Passover Seder on the first evening of Passover. Next, we celebrated our oldest’s 7th birthday, and we will celebrating Yeshua’s resurrection on Sunday. With the festive nature and significance of the holidays of this week I felt inspired to write a little more…
Living a Quiet Life
Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another, for that indeed is what you are doing to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to do this more and more, and to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to…
Working on Being a Servant Mother
Over the past several years of parenting, no one has had a greater influence on my parenting heart than Sally Clarkson. Though I’ve never met her, I feel a kinship with her. Though she is a generation older than me, her past struggles are the ones I work through every day. I know, so mushy! But it’s totally true. I can’t tell you how many…
The Great Priority Challenge
Priorities. Seems like a common thread running through so many of my thoughts over the past several months. So often I come to the end of the day or week and find myself unsettled about the way my priorities have been stacked those past days. I realize that the bulk of my time had been spent doing things with no eternal value- surfing Facebook, Pinterest,…
Wrapping up 2012
What a year 2012 has been! We began the year in our home in Washington, enjoying the snowy winter (including a 10-inch snowfall and power loss!). In March, life changed dramatically when Mark lost his job and we felt God tell us it was time to move to Idaho. What a huge and fast change for our family! In 3 weeks time we had completely…
New Year, New Beginning: The Next Season of Growth and Change For Us…
As we get ready to embark on a new year, we are also gearing up for a new adventure in the Rich family! For the past few months, Mark and I have been praying about forming a congregation here in the Boise area. We have become aware of a deep need for Biblically-solid Messianic teaching here and have felt led to take a step forward…