Memories & Holiday Baking

Memories & Holiday Baking

There’s something about holiday baking in a new kitchen (we’ve moved… again) that has invited memories to cook alongside the treats. Good memories. Happy memories. Memories that traveled alongside less than happy ones of which we weren’t aware at the time. But that’s...
MOAT – Mostly Ordinary, Always Together

MOAT – Mostly Ordinary, Always Together

A slight change is at hand here at themoatblog – not in content (though maybe with this minor shift, content will be coming back!!) but in context. Our house has transformed from 5 tweens & teens to no tweens and 2 teens (for a short time). And far from my aching...
Mercy Invites Dignity and Redemption

Mercy Invites Dignity and Redemption

We just passed the half-way point of our Heart Cleanse that I might be renaming Soul-Cleanse because that’s what seems to be going on. Something deep at a soul level is happening. A levity has entered our sphere. “Have you been doing our little cleanse thing?” I ask...
GKM Power Walks

GKM Power Walks

The Heart Cleanse continues (40 day feast – practicing gratitude, kindness & mercy), and opportunities abound. This offered a lovely morning greeting after a wonderful (yet hard) college send-off weekend in San Antonio last weekend. The boys held down the fort...