I am sitting in my dining room typing this. The girls are in one room, playing with LEGO, which they had long abandoned, but decided to resurrect during their break from our haphazard homeschooling. The boys are doing school work or watching YouTube and/or still sleeping. My husband is on a work call in his…
Full
The calendar keeps surprising me. Another year is almost gone. Next week is Thanksgiving and then the hustle and bustle of the Christmas holidays begin. Before we can barely blink, my champagne glass will be full and I will once again resolve to do better in some way. Every year at this time, I feel…
Clarity
When I was a teenager I would sit on the floor in my bedroom, right behind the door. There was a full length mirror on the back of my bedroom door and while sitting there, I would stare deep into my own eyes. I would do this for a while, until I got this strange feeling, like…
Brand New
Towards the end of last year I discovered the song “Brand New” by Ben Rector. The kids and I sang and danced to it over and over around the house, and every time we listened we smiled and had the best time. You might say we wore it out. The video is so great because…
Scattered
A friend of mine said the other day that she felt “scattered” and I immediately thought, “Me too.” It’s sort of hard for me to focus lately. There are so many things I want to do, with regards to my writing and other goals that I have. But meanwhile… I am in the midst of…
The View and Nurse Storytellers…
I don’t want to be one of those people who makes “mountains out of molehills” or anything like that but the other night I was laying in bed thinking about this whole “The View” thing and what they said about Miss Colorado and her monologue about being a nurse. First and foremost, yes, they insulted…
The View
In the summer of 1996 I went o New York City, New York for the first time in my life. I used my savings to buy the plane ticket and pay for the other expenses involved in the trip. It was actually a college class I took and so a group of us students and…
What ARE We (AM I) Doing??
I recently read this article by Allison Slater Tate – Parenting as a Gex-Xer: We’re the first generation of parents in the age of iEverything. If you are about the same age as me and you read this you will be nodding your head the entire time, I promise. I can relate to everything she…
The Goodness
Earlier this week I heard my priest speak outside of church. He was talking about the innate goodness in us. And how it is so much within us when we are children but as we get older and more jaded, it begins to disappear. Now before you stop reading because I said “priest”, please know…
How Could You Be So Harsh?
The other day I went to Target to pick up a few a lot of things and I was alone (I KNOW!!) since my babysitter was hanging with the kiddos. You know how it is when you go shopping alone (if you’re a parent), you’re just SO much more relaxed when the only person you have…