I took this picture today after my daughter rode her new electric scooter for the first time. Isn’t it a sweet picture? It was a…
Ah…adolescence. It is the best of times and the worst of times (sometimes all in the same day). It is a frenzied time of creativity,…
At the risk of sounding creepy I want to let you know that I watch people pretty closely. I know that I have a lot…
You won’t remember. You won’t remember how after three other births I still had two false labor alarms with you, my fourth, because I was…
There is something that gets my mother blood boiling in seconds. Clothes shoved in drawers. Even as I write it I realize that it is…
Therapy is way more than a toolbox of intervention. Information alone cannot replace professional help. However, information can be very powerful. So, for what it’s…
I wrote a post two years ago called “Why I Let My Children Play With Elves“. There is no way I could have anticipated the…
This is the manuscript from sharing with the ladies at my church at our annual ladies luncheon. Wow…what a special time. I was able to…
I carry you around the house all morning. I promise, Hillary, it seems I would sew you to my hip if I could. I’m getting…
The first in a short series of posts on thanksgiving. Every adult likely has a story about the time they got in trouble the WORST. …
This weekend I hit a wall of discouragement and was blinded by tears of exhaustion. The slightest effort felt like moving through molasses. I won’t…
The last couple of weekends we have had birthday parties on our family agenda and I am reminded once again why I love these things….
I have a confession. Some of you I know in “real life” know this fact about me already. I cry when I leave the hospital…
I wrote the following letter for a very specific, special girl who is a friend of mine as she starts middle school. I started thinking…
My alarm goes off. I don’t have extra time to hit snooze. I put an abrupt end to the melody sweetly trying without success to…