Its that time of year. Time to plan the cutesy, matching outfits, and pick a beautiful locale and photog. Then voila! You have your perfect family picture all ready for your holiday cards. Right? Well…it does not always work out that way. Some years you get the kids ready, hair licked down, bows in, nice shoes on and then one of you falls into the gutter while getting into the minivan. And that Continue Reading
What’s In Your Hula Hoop?
This has been reposted from another place I write. Worth re-posting. Whenever Ryan has a horrific tantrum, especially in public, I feel a sick wave inside. Internally and immediately, I ask myself, “What will this look like when he’s 13? 18? 28?” I feel panic and fear. All the while, I’m utilizing my tantrum-reaction strategies and trying to appear calm and cool. When the tantrum is over, Continue Reading
Girls. Girls. Girls.
I found myself saying to Kate (age 7, and a slice of Heaven) this morning, “Oh, honey, you wore that outfit yesterday. Why don’t you pick out something different for today? We don’t wear the same outfit two days in a row.” Did I really just say that? Does it really matter? She got dressed by herself, brushed her hair nicely, and all without me asking or urging her to do ANYTHING. Well done, my Continue Reading
A Mama’s Gotta Dream
“No matter our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.” –Dale Turner If I were to sit down with you, fellow mama, with a cup of coffee in a cozy café, and ask you, “What is your calling—what would you say to me??? What do you feel your PURPOSE in life is? What are you passionate about? What makes you feel alive? What are your Continue Reading
Mom On Trial Acquitted
I am set free! FREE. From “mother guilt,” and all the criticisms I constantly heap upon myself. At least I found the key to the jail cell. I am so done chastising myself and thinking that everything I do or don’t do for my kids will leave eternal marks on their souls. Now I am NOT SAYING that I am throwing up my hands and singing, “Que Sera, Whatever Will Be.” I’m just coming to terms with Continue Reading
On Having 7 Years Left To Teach Luke EVERYTHING
Seven years ago Luke started DK at Cornerstone Elementary School. And in seven years from now he will start college. COLLEGE!! As my young boy started his new life in dreaded middle school (me dreading it…), it hit me. HARD. We have only 7 years left with him. Then we, too, will be standing at the gate at the airport like Adam and Christina Braverman in this season’s first episode Continue Reading
God Speaks Through Matt Damon
God thinks and acts outside the proverbial box. He always has. That, among a trillion other things, makes Him God. But sometimes I forget He wants to speak to my heart at all. I forget He cares deeply about what I care deeply about. And that He speaks in different ways. Then He does, and I am blown away. AGAIN. Last Christmas break I took the kids to see, “We Bought a Zoo,” starring Matt Continue Reading
Inspiration Oozing Out of Me
I am so high I feel like I’m in the purple and orange hues of a Los Angeles sunset. I just returned from a retreat. (Now, please don’t run away and click off.) It was a different sort of retreat. We called it a “Girlfriends’ Retreat,” a mix between a “girls’ weekend” and a traditional churchy women’s retreat. My BFF in New York City, Kim, and I were in cahoots on this. Being on opposite coasts Continue Reading
Moms’ Night Out Junkie
I’m a group-y kind of girl. I always have been. No, not that kind. I love the village of my girlfriends that I get to live in from time to time. Were it not for my girlfriends or fellow mom friends, I would not be as validated, or as encouraged, as I need to be. In fact, you probably would not want to be around me. Because my true girlfriends challenge me to be the best me, at the same time Continue Reading
Lice Lice, Baby
It happened. A new motherhood-rite-of-passage. You hope, hope, hope, it never will and then it does. Kate and I got lice. Ewwwww….just say it. (Are you scratching your head yet?) Kate had been scratching her head for a week or so, and I was faithfully checking her hair and scalp. AND NOT FINDING A THING. Then, the morning we were set to leave for a lovely nearby resort, I had the silly Continue Reading
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