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I thought the Preschooler’s drawing of our family from Tuesday was going to be the “arts and crafts” highlight of the week. But, that all changed when I went to pick her up yesterday and saw this treasure she created for Father’s Day…
I thought the Preschooler’s drawing of our family from Tuesday was going to be the “arts and crafts” highlight of the week. But, that all changed when I went to pick her up yesterday and saw this treasure she created for Father’s Day…
One thing I’ve noticed about parenting is that children can serve as great mirrors for viewing your own vices. I see so many of my own quirks and weaknesses surface in their little personalities… impatience, a hot temper, stubbornness, etc. I know children can also mirror our strengths, but somehow the vices seem easier to…
(Image credit: browsebiography.com) I love the wit and wisdom of the late Erma Bombeck. Even though she began writing about womanhood and motherhood years before I was born, her humor is timeless. With a mix of sarcasm and tenderness, she was one of the first women to ever write so candidly about the realities of…
Sometimes I forget how children behave at various ages and stages. But, this week, I’ve been reminded that sixteen months is a very unreasonable age. This morning, someone threw a huge fit because she couldn’t get her foot in her sister’s black patent baby doll shoe. {This is similar to the fit she threw last…
“When women are depressed, they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.” Elayne Boosler I’ve been reading a short series of devotions lately on marriage, and the most recent one I read was about how God made men and women different purposefully. I think that’s important to acknowledge. Ironically, on the same…
The Monday after vacation is always a hard one. I think maybe all beach trips should require a minimum two week stay. If they say it takes twenty-one days to make or break a habit, it surely takes fourteen days to fully relax… Since the reality, though, is that it is a Monday, and since…
Last night I told the Preschooler to wait for me downstairs while I got the Kindergartener tucked in and settled into bed. Approximately two minutes later I came back downstairs and discovered this: Yes. Soundly asleep on the stairs. And, this is now my goal for the summer: to stay outdoors enough and to play…