by Kathy Nickerson | Sep 5, 2011 | family, happy endings
I grew up less than five minutes away from all my grandparents. They were part of every birthday, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Halloween, Valentine’s Day and everything in between. When Wendell and I became grandparents, we savored that same blessing. We lived a few...
by Kathy Nickerson | Aug 16, 2011 | family
Our family speaks in code. We use movie quotes from our collective memory to express big things in small words. For instance, when the last of our eighteen little campers drove off into the sunset Monday evening, the appropriate line would have been, “Well,...
by Kathy Nickerson | Aug 8, 2011 | family, happy endings
It is a big week at our house. We are moving furniture, buying groceries, and girding up our loins. On Thursday, our two-bedroom bungalow will fill up with more than a dozen grandchildren from three states. Yes, we are slightly insane. I’ve bought camp cots. And...
by Kathy Nickerson | Aug 4, 2011 | family, happy endings
August is a hot, dry month in Missouri. But is is all greenery and baby’s breath in my mind, because our clan obviously confused August with June. All three of our daughters were late-summer brides. Two of them had outdoor weddings on the hottest day of their...
by Kathy Nickerson | Aug 1, 2011 | family, happy endings
Serenity Beth is celebrating another birthday this week. If you’ve been walking this road with us, you know we don’t take such things lightly around here. Beating cancer will do that for you. And she has beaten it twice! During the first bout, when she...
by Kathy Nickerson | Jul 28, 2011 | family, Friendship, happy endings
We are preparing to break ground for a new church building. This week, our ushers handed every adult a survey to fill out so we can help choose whether we have carpet or hardwood, traditional columns or contemporary sculptures, and a whole host of things in between....
