I just finished getting the youngest three to bed. Annslee was the last one to go down. I still have a substantial amount to accomplish before this head can hit the pillow…so I made the enormous mistake of trying to hurry that tuck in along. It went as follows: Annslee: “MOMMY! TUCK ME IN!!!!” Me: […]
What I can tell you about superglue is that it doesn’t come off of countertops, laminate wood floors, wooden spoons, washrags, or my hands. What I can also tell you about superglue is that it doesn’t hold Fozzy Bear’s head on. How it can affix itself to all of the other stuff…yet be unable to […]
I’ve never had a problem with emotions. I also haven’t really felt myself lately. And the two of those things have danced around each other for months. For the first time in my life…I have felt positively non-emotional. It was sorta nice, actually…for a while , anyway. There were no tears the night before the first day […]
I can’t even tell you how many blog posts have been started and stopped and then restarted again in my mind over the last 9 months. There are pictures and stories…hopes and losses…dreams and disappointments…beauty and ashes sprinkled all throughout the lives surrounding me. And I’ve lived it all. And written about it none. And that’s […]
Well…things have been good. December is somehow here already…and October and November hold some really great memories for us as a family. **** We really didn’t share with many people that all summer long…we were wrestling with the decision of where Colton would attend high school. We were trying to decide between the large public […]
A lot of Birthdays take place for us in the Fall. And if there’s one thing I know for sure…it’s that Birthdays should be properly celebrated. It is possible though…that my stamina for throwing elaborately themed Birthday parties is dwindling. And that these days…I give myself permission to cut corners. For example…I served store-bought cupcakes […]
Tomorrow is a new day. His graces are new in the morning. Hit the reset button. The sun will come out tomorrow… Or something like that. I have stick-it notes everywhere. It’s highly possible and probable that if I don’t write it down the minute I’m told…it’s going to get lost in the black hole […]
In the 2 hour window that I have with all 5 children in school…I waltzed into Target this morning with my world on a string. I made it to Walmart last night after the 5th grade parent night…and by 10:30…all school supplies had been purchased except for a folder, 2 composition notebooks, and a wireless […]
Here it is. I have dreaded this day since Annslee was born. I realize that this may sound crazy to some. But it is the truth. I can’t tell you how many times over the last 5 years that I have thought or even said out loud… “Man…the day this baby starts Kindergarten is the […]
Yesterday…I walked into Target by myself. I grabbed one of the few carts that were left since the rest of them were, no doubt, in the school supply section of the store with frazzled moms holding crumpled school supply lists like their lives depended on it. Kids were hanging out of carts…off of carts…and from […]