Kauai, continued!
Here are a few more photos from our trip to Kauai. It was such a beautiful place. Looking down from the top of Kilauea Lighthouse. Near Mount Waialeale, the location with the…
Tents and foil and lizards… oh my
Being a mom means having a tent set up in your living room, for days… Finding little balls made of foil in your son’s shower (“So I can play basketball…
Are You Just Too Busy?
That’s the question my friend Joanne asks in her book Just Too Busy – Taking Your Family on a Radical Sabbatical. Her book is the story of her own family’s…
Kauai Vacation!
I don’t even know where to start; Kauai is such a beautiful place. It was so nice to be able to spend time away with Mike, just the two of us….
Five tips for raising grateful kids
Today, I’m concluding my two-part series on gratefulness. In the first part of this series, we talked about five ways we can be more grateful as moms, and today we are…
There’s a Moose in Our House
And there’s this, too… A big, round, pink-igloo fort that my kids made out of umbrellas. And when they asked if they could leave it up for “a little while”,…
And then you realize they are pedaling on their own…
We try to say prayers as a family every night. It’s part of our bedtime routine with the kids and I love the time together–the four of us in either…
The mom and her daughter in the dressing room…
I walked into the dressing room of a store the other day to try some clothes on. Another mom walked in beside me pushing a stroller with a newborn in it. She was balancing…