Happy Birthday, Lily Grace!
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Today is Lily Grace's 5th birthday!
Five years ago today, a precious child of God was born on the other side of the world. Eight months later, she met her mommy and daddy for the first time and we met our beautiful Gulzhanar, who continues to amaze us and fill our hearts to overflowing every day.
Happy Birthday, Lily Grace!
Happy Birthday, Lily Grace!
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Young life - fall 2012
Fall is one of our favorite times of the year, as the season calls out for us to pause and give thanks for the abundance and harvest around and within us.
We hope you have had a beautiful fall in every way, and as the days grow shorter and colder, we wish you and your family a joyous holiday season full of the warmth that grace, hope and peace bring.
Steve, Tonya, Lily Grace and Sam
We hope you have had a beautiful fall in every way, and as the days grow shorter and colder, we wish you and your family a joyous holiday season full of the warmth that grace, hope and peace bring.
Steve, Tonya, Lily Grace and Sam
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Friday, June 8, 2012
Views from an Empty Nest
The title of this post wasn't meant to throw you - after all, it will be a LONG time before Tonya and I have that perspective!
Rather, Views from an Empty Nest is the title of my mom's new book, which is now available available at iUniverse and on Amazon.com.
Here is the publisher's note:
"Southern writer Madelyn Young thinks that when a woman enters her seventies, it is time to stop talking about what she is going to do and get on with it. In her collection of award-winning thirty-one stories and essays, Young shares tales of family loyalty and love, discord, and intrigue as she poignantly reflects on a life well-lived. In creating her stories, Young takes real-life experiences and transforms them into compelling accounts that sometimes take surprising twists in the end. In "Nature's Gift", Young highlights the rediscovery of the ivory-billed woodpecker in eastern Arkansas in 2004; in "Lost and Found", she contemplates what it would be like to pick up litter on the roadside and then stumble across something unusual. "Good Intentions" details a moving moment when she was a student teacher and brought home a bedraggled girl who needed just one thing-love. Following each anecdote and story, Young includes interesting notes detailing what inspired the writing and the awards each piece has won to date. From her first tale to the last, Young entertains adults of all ages with the hope that her stories will encourage other writers to always look inside when gleaning story ideas."
iUniverse has designated Mom as a "Rising Star". Needless to say, we are very proud of her! You can take a look inside the book by clicking here.
Go Mom!
Steve and Tonya
Rather, Views from an Empty Nest is the title of my mom's new book, which is now available available at iUniverse and on Amazon.com.
"Southern writer Madelyn Young thinks that when a woman enters her seventies, it is time to stop talking about what she is going to do and get on with it. In her collection of award-winning thirty-one stories and essays, Young shares tales of family loyalty and love, discord, and intrigue as she poignantly reflects on a life well-lived. In creating her stories, Young takes real-life experiences and transforms them into compelling accounts that sometimes take surprising twists in the end. In "Nature's Gift", Young highlights the rediscovery of the ivory-billed woodpecker in eastern Arkansas in 2004; in "Lost and Found", she contemplates what it would be like to pick up litter on the roadside and then stumble across something unusual. "Good Intentions" details a moving moment when she was a student teacher and brought home a bedraggled girl who needed just one thing-love. Following each anecdote and story, Young includes interesting notes detailing what inspired the writing and the awards each piece has won to date. From her first tale to the last, Young entertains adults of all ages with the hope that her stories will encourage other writers to always look inside when gleaning story ideas."
iUniverse has designated Mom as a "Rising Star". Needless to say, we are very proud of her! You can take a look inside the book by clicking here.
Go Mom!
Steve and Tonya
