Last Wednesday night, we were having a church meal. Wes, Elisabeth, Trey, and Addy were up for Christmas. We were all sitting down eating, and Trey was sitting at the head of our table in a highchair eating away!
After a while, Trey looked around and spotted Daddy at the other end of the [...]

We were living in Pennsylvania, where our salary ranged anywhere from $1.00 a week to $400.00 a month.  It was nearing Christmas time.  There were six children (Timothy wasn’t born yet), and our Christmas was expected to be rather meager.  Our parents didn’t plan anything for Christmas- they had nothing to prepare, nothing to decorate [...]

When Mother was a young girl, maybe 12 or 13, she had done some babysitting and earned $10.00.
 When Sunday morning came, she sat in the pew with her $10.00, and as the offering plate was passed around, she got ready to put in $1.00 for tithe.  Somehow she felt that she should put all $10.00 [...]

We were leaving in a few days to go on a kind of long trip.  Rachel had been going through a growing spurt and she did not have enough clothes for a trip- she really only had a very few dresses. 
Everyone was packing- except Rachel.  She was worrying and watching.  Finally she went to Mother [...]