by Lisa Maples | Aug 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
I volunteered to be a camp counselor again this year at our church camp for Grades 2 – 5 in early August. Our church rents a campground in South Carolina each year with rustic cabins, a pool with diving boards where kids swim, a barn where kids ride horses and...
by Lisa Maples | Jul 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
Today it began to sink into my heart. My inlaws accepted an offer on their rural, on the lake, Tennessee house and will move to my town soon, even within the month. They may even stay with my family while searching for a new house in our area. We have prayed for...
by Lisa Maples | Jul 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
Today, I put together an Animoto video that highlights moments from my summer so far. We’ve been out of school for a month so there’s another month of summer left. I am trying to cherish each day. I’ve posted the video in this blog post below. I...
by Lisa Maples | Jun 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
Image Credit: https://lisamaples.life/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/grss-mow.jpg Just as I became a teenager, Mrs. Oliver, our elderly neighbor in her late seventies, paid me to mow her grass in the summer from 1984 – 1986. Her husband died before we had moved in...
by Lisa Maples | May 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
On a typical summer’s afternoon when I was a young teen, I might lay out in the sun on our lower deck in a folding plastic lawn chair hidden by the huge tomato plants. As the summer went on, I’d get a tan. Mrs. Oliver, our neighbor, liked to visit with my mother...
