PLAtime box

03/28/2026

Little foil bucket. Easter Rolo wrappers would be great for these. And the fairies would appreciate them!

03/18/2026

Seek beauty!

03/13/2026

Aluminum foil “duckie”! Created by LK

03/13/2026

What is best way to align life so that it “prints” what you want it to print? The best way I have found is by analyzing worldview according to the Bible to build desired values rather than default values to direct your choices…

02/07/2026

Some questions to consider the impression you make. What posture do you use when you greet people? Where are your thoughts: only on yourself and how you come across, only on them and how you compare, on how God is connecting your stories, or something else? Can you genuinely see the worth in them while remembering your own worth? February is all about attachments here; check back at some of our other February posts from the past!

10/14/2025

October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness month. This picture and phrase in Launch is one I drew in memory of our two little ones we haven’t yet seen face to face and the years on the tombstone honor my Grandmother because I can easily envision the three of them basking in shared “childlikeness”. The oldest would have turned 18 last month. Their lives taught me deep and wonderful truths of God and showed me His nearness to my broken heart. This did not come quickly and part may always remain tender. As I have aged, I see how uncommon and miraculous it is to have a man and woman cleave to each other over self, over friends, over the world’s narrative of husbands and wives. I also recognize how miraculous it is for God to unite them and babies to be born, how they survive development, the regular falls, as well as illness and super hard things. God is more regularly miraculously sustaining than we often acknowledge! And even when they leave before we wanted, He is with us and them.

09/19/2025

08/16/2025

“Father, help us mean it! Help us trust You with those we love and the plans You have for them, the connections You make between them and others, and Your Ways. Sometimes we don’t understand and sometimes it is what we dreamed, planned, hoped for plus more. Either way the separations can be heavy. Help us hold it all! The excitement AND the missing!”

07/18/2025

Weekend Fun: Go on a laughter scavenger hunt ( with or without a buddy). Meander through a book store, antique store, or boutique and see how many things make you smile or laugh in 15 minutes. Take pictures of at least 5. If you have time, visit several shops each for 15-30 minutes. When you arrive home, select your favorite snack and arrange what you have collected in order of family laughter. If you went with a buddy, share with each other. Then take a moment to examine if you respond more to word play, nature humor, social humor, etc. How much does sarcasm draw you in? See if you can notice a difference in your body with sarcastic material. Add your favorites to your lists from earlier this week and make note of which shops had most humor so you can visit them on a hard day for some doses of laughter.

07/16/2025

On a regular day, not experiencing pain, sadness, or illness:
~ make a list of your funniest memories (review them monthly and use them when you need a dose of laughter)
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~write out a list of the most fun people from your life who you have shared many laughs with you
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~make a list of your favorite funny movies
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~ sit across from someone and make silly faces at them, back and forth; recognize that if you’re in a hard time currently, this is exercise. Going to be hard to start but will be so helpful usually over both people have taken 2 turns.
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~ follow for Friday funnies weekly (for the four years of my stepdad’s illness and hospice journey, he, my mom, and I shared laughs over these every week and mom and I use them as miss-you missions for him in our grief since his passing)
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See the next slide for a web address for an article about Laughter helping patients with an Alzheimer’s diagnosis

07/15/2025

Tuesday’s Tool: Laughter! We can be deceived into keeping laughter out of some of the scenarios where it is most beneficial. Yes, appropriateness must be taken into account, but when sickness is mild or prolonged, laughter must be reintroduced i@tot the care plan. Deep belly laughter aids the lymph system in pumping out toxins, supporting immune function, and oxygenating the blood. It strengthens core muscles for support and assisting decreasing fall risk. Cognitively, it activates more parts of the brain than other emotions and socially, it bonds patients and their caregivers forming team attitudes. For years, laughter doses have been included in care plans for childhood sickness and broken bone injuries but laughter is even more crucial for longer term diagnoses like dementia, Parkinson’s and recovery from brain injury. While laughter is beneficial, particular forms increase these things while mockery and sarcasm actually diminish these. In our current culture, we are honing sarcasm and actually weakening our true humor while also being more attuned to fear and grief through social media. This leads us into more moments of breath-holding, brain and muscle atrophy, and increases sickness which perpetuates the lessening of laughter. Tomorrow we will examine some ways to elicit healthy laughter and build our resilience though humor!

07/14/2025

Monday encouragement: fight for laughter! On the days when it is the hardest to find it, in the doctor’s office, in the hospital, on the days tasks are piling up, the seasons when the grief is washing over you as well as during the sweet times! Tools to elicit laughter in hard places will be in this week’s posts. But today make a choice that you will be a person who will dig for and protect joy. This world is bringing trouble to the table; what are you bringing?