if you’ve been following us here, we are making a switch. the new blog will be: http://viljoens.blogspot.com will be shutting this blog down on Friday.

is finally back!!!!!!!!!!! I got the call yesterday that I could come collect it any time and when you have a small baby you either have to organize for your husband to stay home while you go during his nap or wait for him to wake up to go with you. Needless to say I [...]

has been in for repair for a month now. They sent me a text this week saying it was in final testing and they would text when it was ready for collection. That was Monday and here we are at Friday. Should I be nervous that they haven’t texted? I tried calling but it’s an [...]

Ok, so if you grew up in church you’ll remember the children’s song “Jesus loves the little children.” Well recently a friend of mine told me about a different version this guy wrote about in a book on missions. Instead of the little children being yellow, black and white, they are various people groups who [...]

My mom told me about this thing called magicjack over a year ago and I thought, “well that sounds nice,” then I forgot all about it. This year when they were here for a visit(mainly to see their newly arrived grandson, Asher), they brought theirs and showed me how it works. Then my mom sent [...]

I have started subscribing to certain blogs and the RSS feeds get dumped into my email everyday. I love reading what these various people have to say on life and faith. I find I am becoming quite educated on certain things in the faith and world around me that I never would’ve looked into. I [...]

So much has happened in our lives. The biggest thing is the welcoming of our son, Asher Dean, into the world. He’s consumed most of our days and nights. Finally here we are in May, the middle of May anyway, and I am getting back to things that fell off the radar when I had [...]

Today we finally got to do something we’ve been trying and planning to do for a very long time now, start the adoption process of Jeff’s biological cousin, Casey(her mom and Jeff’s mom are twins). She’s 12 years old(13 in March as she always reminds us) and she’s been living with us for the past [...]

Here I sit in 2011, waiting to fall asleep and wake up to a New Year’s day, I am thinking back on something that has been rolling in and out of my head and heart the past few days.  Earlier this year I listened to a talk by John Piper called “Hold fast the word [...]