I had so many plans for Thanksgiving, and I’m most ungrateful that they’ve all gone up in smoke. I’ve been fighting a bug most of the month, and finally went to the doctor yesterday. It is nothing alarming, and for that I should be thankful…but I don’t feel that way at all lying home in bed, and missing my kindergartner…
I don’t know how things look from your living room couch, but as I look around our house, I see a wealth of dried out markers, socks with no mate, lift-the-flap books with flaps ripped out of them, and, of course, diapers. An abundance of diapers, a diaper deluge. And no shortage of creative ways to play with them. If…
“Mo-om!” my four year old wailed as I came upstairs from throwing in a load of laundry. “Anneliese sixpadeed my puzzle!!” Sure enough, her Pocahontas puzzle, which she had nearly completed, lay in pieces once again, scattered on the kitchen floor. Her two year old sister just can’t resist the urge to sixpadee. She will yell the made-up word as…
How was your weekend? For me, this is a loaded question. Sometimes Saturday is my worst day of the week. This last Saturday, I realized why. All week long, I look forward to Saturday. I plan/daydream about how I’ll spend my day. While my four year old and two year old gleefully jump on my bed at 6:45 AM, I…
Today is Good Friday. Has my mental detox been successful? Well, I know for sure that shining the light of the Word up there in my head has illuminated a lot of junk. I’m reminded of a Bible study I attended years ago with a fun-loving group of ladies in various stages of life. We were tackling a booklet on…