Encourage
Gardenias and Matzo Balls
Last week it was almost 80 degrees. The skies were robin's egg blue, the daffodils and pear trees had bloomed, the spring peepers were belting out a beautiful symphony...it was hard to believe it was the middle of March! Today it is stinkin' cold. Overcast. The frost...
read moreBreaking Busy
So it's less than a week until Spring Break and my family still isn't sure what it's doing. We've talked about jumping in the car and heading west to hit the slopes. We've discussed going to visit family in Dallas for a few days. We've thought about doing a couple...
read moreI’m a Dance Mom, and Ready to Admit It
(Photo: Annie as a new ballerina, 2006) I spent the weekend at a dance competition. Yes, I'm sort of a dance mom. (Maybe not in the fake-eyelashes-hyper-competitive-brawling-with-other-dance-moms way, but we did recently acquire the costume travel duffel bag with...
read moreBroken Battery…
My friend was going through some old pictures the other day and came across a huge bunch of them featuring us and our kids doing all kinds of super amazing things. Apparently we used to be fun and full of energy! We would load our combination of six small humans...
read more‘Walking the Walk’ in Friendship
If the first rule of real estate is location, location, location, then the first rule of relationships is communication, communication, communication. But then - there's middle school. My 13-year-old daughter came home with a sad tale of a disagreement with a friend....
read moreVictory Lap!
Let me just start this post with a warning: expect total hideous (and possibly humiliating) honesty here. Notice I left out the word "profound." This is a pretty surface-y piece of writing....but words won't be minced. Some days I feel like a total failure....
read moreLessons from the Nursing Home
My children spent 2 hours at a local nursing home the weekend before Christmas, visiting with the residents and singing (along with the rest of their school group) a few off-key Christmas carols. Their intent is always to play games and put together puzzles and other...
read moreYour Worth As A Mother Is Not Defined By Your Child’s Valentine Box
My heart jumped inside my chest! Here these school moms were talking about Valentine boxes. For a brief moment a wave of relief passed over me because they mentioned that the kids might be making their own in their classroom. HALLELUJIA! God was shining on me! ...
read moreShow the Love February Giveaway!
It's February! It's the month for celebrating all types of love: the hearts-and-flowers-and-candy kind, the kiddos' cupcakes- and-class parties-and-Valentine-boxes kind, the treat-your-friends-to-coffee kind, and the forgive your husband if he rushes in late to give...
read moreSwitching Tracks
Have you ever seen a train switch tracks? It's not something I'd recommend for regular entertainment. But...when you're sitting front and center as the first car behind the blinking striped railroad crossing barrier, trapped between that and 4 minivans with a carload...
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