[DISCLAIMER: this blog will be LENGTHY.... I'm not sure it will end with a "lesson"... but I need to document it for my most i...

It is Thursday, and I am THANKFUL ! Noah James Kastner 6 years old I'm thankful for Noah James Kastner . This amazing boy of mi...

I'm warning you now: at first glance this blog will seem disjointed, but give me time, and I promise I will try to pull it together. ...

Yesterday as I was running the marathon of midweek services carpool (I so did NOT miss my calling as a soccer mom), Jeremiah was ruminating ...

I love this song! It gets my thoughts on Heaven , but not just that, it brings a little piece of Heaven here to earth. How lovely is Your dw...

Lately I've been thinking a lot about something my mother always tells me, "Jami, you're not raising successful children.  You...

Stitches September 8, 2009 ... Some things are so fuzzy.  Some things are so clear.  I clearly remember sitting in a little vending ma...

That title is both an update and part of the lesson of this blog. I am not dead. I know I've had a long blog silence. All I can say i...

I wonder.... Is this kinda what Heaven will be like? My children, sun-starved and fresh-air-deprived, from being cooped up over a long Wis...

What is up with this DENSE fog??? Last night was AWANA, and as the time to leave approached, the kids and I looked out the window with appr...

Why do I have such a hard time letting go??? I'm not really a hoarder. (Although my husband would probably disagree as he is DEFINITEL...

Hmmmm…. What started out as a bit of a chaotic morning (John took about 4 “alarms” to get out of bed, Jeremiah awoke at 6 a.m. because the c...

It started before Christmas. We were talking with the kids about how it would likely be a tight Christmas. Jeremiah said, "Maybe you ...

This Christmas, the one which closed out the most difficult year in the history of the Kastner family, was the best Christmas we have EVER ...

All I ever wanted to be was a Momma and a Wife. I went to college, had a career, but all along I was really hoping someone would marry me an...

FINALLY! an update from the Kastners! Sorry it's been so long. You'll see why in a bit. Lessons from Old Mother Hubbard's ...

I'm crying, "Uncle!" I have to! I can't take much more!!!!! John: Well today was another bad day. He slept most of th...