Maybe one day…
An excerpt from my conversation with my eldest after I picked her up from school yesterday:
An excerpt from my conversation with my eldest after I picked her up from school yesterday:
Last week after the wedding festivities in Orlando, we scooted down the road just a bit to “the happiest place on earth.” {I believe it also deserves the honor of being labeled “the most humid place on earth,” at least in July}. We knew going into this trip that the Toddler’s ripe age of twenty-one…
When I was in graduate school we were required to take a class called Spiritual Formation. For some reason, I thought this would be a fun one to take my first semester, so I signed up with a very misguided sense of excitement about all we would learn about this fascinating topic. Little did I…
Last week the 2nd Grader brought home her latest color rendering of our family. I always love seeing how we’ve changed from season to season. I think this may be one of her most accurate artistic interpretations to date. All the hair color and styles are spot on. The only areas where she got questionably…
When we welcomed the Preschooler into our life almost five years ago, we were your typical helicopter parents. We monitored her every move. We used hand sanitizer religiously. If her pacifier hit the floor, we sterilized it. All of her clothes and blankets were carefully laundered with Dreft. I set my alarm to check on her breathing…
Though I can scarcely believe it, the Kindergartener turned six this week. She has been counting down the days until her birthday for the last month and couldn’t wait to wake up on Tuesday and get her big day started. Her first question of the morning was, “Do you think I look a little taller…
Sometimes I wonder how or why my children have certain personality traits. All three of our girls are far more frilly and squeal-ly than I can recall ever being. I can’t trace their love for dance or their flair for the dramatic back to my side of the family tree. Likewise, my easygoing husband can’t…