by Kathy Nickerson | Mar 7, 2011 | family, happy endings, mercy
My mother-in-law is 91, and she continues to inspire me with her outlook on life. For her 90th birthday, we gave her a laptop so she could keep in touch with all the kids, grandkids, and great-grands scattered across the earth. And, she does. She became terribly ill...
by Kathy Nickerson | Feb 14, 2011 | family, happy endings
The first card Wendell ever gave me was a giant version with a dancing Snoopy from Peanuts on the front. Underneath it said, “Since I met you…” Inside, Snoopy bounced off the page with a little coiled spring, and the tag line read, “my feet...
by Kathy Nickerson | Jan 21, 2011 | happy endings, mercy, The Bible
A few decades ago, Wendell and I were facing some hard things in life. To tell you the truth, I don’t remember all the details about that season. It had to do with money and jobs and poor health and transitions. I took a walk one summer day and asked God,...
by Kathy Nickerson | Jan 11, 2011 | family, Friendship, happy endings
Life is a little messy in our extended family right now. Chemotherapy for one branch, walking pneumonia in another. Two year olds with attitude, snowstorms, head-lice. All the normal stuff that most families face. And, it is always the little things that put me over...
by Kathy Nickerson | Jan 1, 2011 | family, happy endings
Putting away the lights is never as much fun and getting them out. Yet, I find a strange solace it wrapping the nativity pieces one-by-one and tucking them into their box. I’m comforted knowing they will be waiting for me next year, no matter what. (Okay, unless...
by Kathy Nickerson | Dec 28, 2010 | family, happy endings
Our family is pretty big on doing things together. We’ve been known to gather twenty family members in the waiting room when a new baby is born. In the last few years, though, geography has limited some of those interactions. (Baby Violet was sadly lacking in a...
