Life is moving super fast. Everything is a blur. Everyday it's 5 o'clock before we know it and time to figure out dinner, do homework, bath time, and read a book before bed. Did I mention maybe [...]
Tis the season of family portraits and Christmas cards. Sweet toddlers with rosy cheeks and saggy diaper bottoms pose on Santa’s lap or dressed up under a tree. Babies with angel wings, [...]
Do you see what I see? I was reading through Darren Sutton's great post on Growing Family Traditions. I appreciated his driving point - "The important part of ‘tradition’ is the heart and memory [...]
The toddler and teenage years are separated by a decade of time I refer to as the "sweet season," which gives a bit of respite between the two most challenging age groups in parenting. Maybe it's [...]
I have a problem. Problem # 1. Keeping my mouth shut. For some reason, I just can't stay out of my children's conversations. The urge to respond has turned into a full-on bad habit. The other [...]
I just read something so profound that I wanted to share it in a post. This letter was originally posted last month on the ThinkTheology.org blog by an anonymous author due to the nature of the [...]
A few months ago we helped our son move into a small college dorm room shared with two other people – joined by a bathroom to another dorm room of two additional college freshman. Five boys. One [...]
I think the everyday stories of our messy, real lives need a place to be shared, which is why I’m not normally a fan of posting book excerpts. But I wanted to follow on the heels of the story on [...]
Out of the blue, my daughter, who shares a room with her brother, is scared of the dark. For real? Or does she really just want to keep playing and reading in her bed when its lights out? She's [...]
The other day I was invited to teach at an assembly at my kids' junior high & high schools. I did my best to not acknowledge them as they sat with their friends, or share stories about our [...]