If we treat them like a treasure
they will become a treasure… Do I love you because you’re beautiful, Or are you beautiful because I love you? ~Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella Thank you,…
Those jeans are workin’ for ya!
I went to a Girlfriends’ Night Out with some friends a while ago where Kathy Lipp (author of The Marriage Project and The Husband Project) spoke. She talked about keeping…
A little taller, a little older, a little stronger
The front door opens and closes with a bang. “Hi, Mom,” my ten-year-old calls. He’s home early because it’s a minimum day. I go into the entry hall and give him…
A quick favor to ask
Hey friends, I’m just popping in to ask a quick favor… I found out this morning that two of my picture book manuscripts qualified in a writing contest. The publisher that’s…
The Moment I Almost Missed…
It was after 9:30 p.m. on a school night. Mike was at a dinner meeting for work, my son had just fallen asleep, and I had a lot to do…
Pets and more pets (and then there were two)
A couple of weeks ago, we went to a Fall Festival at my son’s school, where he won two goldfish at one of the booths. Suffice it to say, we’ve…
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…
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”,…