Valuing Friends over Friendships

Normally a dinner conversation at our house goes something like this: Dad: So Levi, what did you do at recess today today? Levi: Trevor, you’re going to get kicked if you stay under the table! Mom: Trevor, back in your chair please. Trevor: AAAAUUUGGGHHHH! Dad:...

Let’s Bring Spring!

We’re nearing the winter solstice…the longest night. In our post-Covid world, there is more to this than just physical cold and darkness. As we retreat indoors after a long bleak year, there is anxiety, monotony, isolation, sickness, and death. We long for...

Turning Good Enough into Great!

If you’re ever at our house for more than 20 seconds, and you don’t look like a Disney princess, you’ll probably be tackled by a child leaping from a couch or slightly ajar closet door. For those not in the know, this is the standard way a Dykstra...

Live Who You Really Are

QUIZ TIME! Naw, that’s just too mean. Literally nobody wants a flashback to junior high. And since I’m convinced nobody really knows what a Golgi apparatus actually is, there’s no point in asking you, right? So why would I subject you to such trauma?...