The other day I was driving around while the girls were listening to a CD we have in the car with kids’ camp songs. I’ve noticed lately that they are both intently soaking up the lyrics, trying to understand and relate to each song as they hear it. Right now, they especially like the catchy…
The summer after my 4th grade year in school, I was playing shortstop at softball practice when I experienced a career-ending injury. Somehow a ball bounced off the edge of my catching glove and hit my right hand at such an angle that it dislocated my little finger and broke a bone in my hand….
In the midst of this parenting business, there are many days when I feel like we are making little, if any, forward progress with the girls. When you mix discipline issues, sibling rivalries, and the typical challenges of caring for young children together with things like meals, snacks, laundry, dishes, baths and bedtime rituals, it’s…
I’m pretty sure the Preschooler thinks of the years prior to her birth in much the same way I think of the Ice Age… so long ago it’s almost unfathomable. Thus, when we show her and the Toddler pictures and video of our wedding, they are both mesmerized… and full of questions like… “Who is…