A few years ago I had a shopping shenanigan with my youngest child that always makes me re-think the fast pace I try to maintain during the Christmas season. I was trying to cram in a quick Target run before picking the older two girls up from school. We ran in the store, loaded our…
This week my middle daughter’s 5th grade class is having a technology-free week at school. They’re discussing how technology is a wonderful servant but a terrible master. On Monday they had “FaceTime” where they paired up with a partner, sat up straight, looked him/her in the eye, and discussed what each of them did over…
By the time this posts I’ll be en route to Nashville for a writing conference. Even just typing that sentence makes me feel a little presumptuous. Wouldn’t my time be better spent at a parenting conference? A cooking class? A spiritual retreat? Maybe so. But it’s been almost ten years {my oldest two were wearing…
A couple of years ago on a laid-back Saturday morning, our girls stumbled upon a movie called Dolphin Tale. The movie dramatizes the true story of a dolphin, named Winter, who is rescued and rehabilitated after getting caught in a fishing net off the coast of Florida and subsequently losing her tail. A team of…