warm breezes of Spring new green seedlings friends who show up to lend a hand a family that prays fur therapy from a little pup a man of God as my husband our home more than I ever expected – my gratitude just overflows Join the Gratitude Community We will not hide them from their [...]
Do you remember when you first had children? Or even thought about having children? I’m sure I’m not the only one that had the highest ideals. Here are just a few of my pre-2002 (the naive parent stage) and present day (the realistic parent) thoughts: Pre-2002: I was determined that my daughter was not going [...]
You don’t have to be a parent very long before you have these flashes where you realize all of a sudden that your child is more grown up – maybe you suddently notice they are taller or respond more maturely to some situation that would have been a meltdown in the past. My little girl [...]
This being my official one-hundredth post, I am doing a twist on the blogging tradition of telling you 100 things about me. I just don’t think there are really 100 interesting things about me and I’m too busy/lazy to rack my brains and come up with 100 things that I’m willing to confess to the [...]
Kids love hearing stories about themselves or their parents. Both of our children regularly request stories about silly things they did as a younger kiddo, or stories about their father or me as a child. Tonight at dinner we got on a roll and had them both laughing until they cried. I must admit, we [...]
Today is our sixteeth wedding anniversary. We’ve known each other since high school and have been married for almost half our lives. We were only nineteen when we got married, and joke that we finished raising each other. We almost did! I showed Principesa our wedding album recently and she was in love with the [...]
