I have a four year old who is such a boy- all stubborn and strong willed, who often prefers loud one-syllable monster noises to more sophisticated conversation. Say he asks for a cookie and I tell him “no.” Does he complain? No, but he ignores …
We all have not-so-fantastic parent moments. Some are ugly, some are sad, some are just plain laughable (after the fact, of course.) One of my recent errors was to leave a dirty diaper on the floor after changing my youngest son. I completely forgot …
The New Year arrived and, for the first time in many years, I did not sit down to write out a list of goals for myself. I did, however, think of a word for this year…a word that I hope will flesh itself out in …
We usually try to get a real tree as soon after Thanksgiving as we can- this year I think we hauled the tree home on November 30th. Which is wonderful- I mean, let’s get the joy of the Christmas season started as soon as possible! …
At a conference recently I heard someone speak about lies- the lies the enemy wants us to believe about ourselves to keep us from truly living. So the guy basically asked everyone, “What is the lie that you are believing?” And my first thought was …
I sat down this week to re-apply for our insurance. I was so excited to be filling out an electronic application instead of the usual paper one…for all of ten minutes. Because at minute ten I realized that I somehow botched a question at minute …
So this is a part 2 to my last post. It was an idea I sort of wanted to tack on to the end, but at that point I was going to have an obnoxious rambly transition, and no pays attention to wordy so I …
I’m drinking chamomile tea. This will be a soothing way to end the day, I think, and it has peppermint which feels festive. We went Christmas Tree shopping? picking today and found a cute, little, more-expensive-than-we-need tree that fit in the back of our minivan along with the …
Sometimes I feel like I’m just wandering…not entirely sure where life is going- not even sure I know where I want it to go. I get to the end of a good, full weekend- and I suddenly stare ahead to a week that I forgot …
A friend once told me that I must be always in my head- a very accurate observation. I am constantly thinking, mulling, self-debating, questioning, doubting, analyzing or otherwise contemplating something. It baffles me if I ask my husband, “What are you thinking about?” and he …