by Elaine Olsen | Apr 29, 2011 | family fun, marriage
In keeping with the theme of the day…You’re invited to a Royal Wedding… of sorts!{The keepers of the Bride}{Not the Queen Mum but my mum}{Just to prove I was once as skinny as Kate!}{My keepers not having very much fun…}{Grand...
by Elaine Olsen | Apr 12, 2011 | family fun, friendship, give aways
Time for a guessing game.Where am I? What am I celebrating?With whom am I celebrating? (Billy doesn’t count…)And a bonus for those who’ve been following me on the journey for a season or two…What does this crazy guy do for a living that I have...
by Elaine Olsen | Feb 25, 2011 | cancer, cancer volume 3, faith, family fun, letting go, living God's truth, out of the mouths of babes, parenting, surrender
I watched her out of the corner of my eye. Tears were forming in hers. We’d just settled into our evening watch of American Idol when I noticed her sadness. The “boys” present in the room shrugged it off as insignificant. Boys are like that sometimes, not seeing past...
by Elaine Olsen | Nov 6, 2010 | cancer, cancer volume 2, family fun, parenting, pilgrimage, words
I had lunch with the sisters last week. I’ve yet to tell you much about them… these three Southern women connected by birth and each of them hovering toward eighty years of age. I first met them on a Saturday before that Monday (August 23, 2010—a date now...
by Elaine Olsen | Oct 14, 2010 | cancer, cancer volume 2, family fun
It arrived in the mail today. A well-timed, undeserved kindness from a good friend. A third-place ribbon of a first-place portrait of two first-rate boys. My boys. Two sons digging their way through the soil on a Bolivian mountainside, investing their hearts into a...
by Elaine Olsen | Sep 24, 2010 | cancer, cancer volume 2, faith, family fun, out of the mouths of babes
“But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness. Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many...
