My Easter Gifts…
I’ve been wanting to read Ann Voskamp’s book One Thousand Gifts for a while now and I finally downloaded it to my nook this week. I can’t put it down. What…
Come visit me today at Mamapedia!
Happy Mom-Monday, everyone! I hope you had a great weekend. We had a fun one, especially Saturday moring at the Relay for Life event in our area. It was an emotional…
When Disaster Strikes (and one way to involve your kids in helping)
I know I’m not alone when I say how sad I was to hear about the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. I woke up that morning to a text from…
Little bits and pieces of happiness…
“I have to tell you the best thing,” my daughter said the other night, smiling. She’d just gotten home from youth group and finished brushing her teeth and putting her pajamas…
It’s just a truck…
Faded-yellow, rusted, old. A remnant from when my kids were younger. They used to push it around the yard and make noises like an engine. They used to fill it…
Not perfect…
The other day, I was looking through some magazine articles I’ve written and I came across one of my poems that was published in a teen magazine several years ago. The poem was…
A Man Named Ted
*Post originally published in 2009 and in the book Kirtsy Takes a Bow – A Celebration of Women’s Online Favorites. There’s a man named Ted who lives in a senior home…
How one woman’s comment made a difference for me
*This post was originally published in 2008. Not long ago, frustrated by my picky eaters, I came up with a plan to help them try new foods: Every week, they’re responsible for going through…