Gratitude Attitude
Nothing says teaching your kids how to be gracious and thankful like snarling, “I SAID, say THANK YOU!” a thousand times a day. Perhaps THAT is the sentiment that gets into my little Lainy when recently, after I spent an hour searching for her lost sippy cup,...
Demanding Toddlers
I am so proud of my 2-year-old daughter I could scream. Not my normal scream: my normal scream is usually a mix of panic, desperation, and unbelief at whatever a toddler has climbed, eaten, hit, thrown, snuck, or destroyed. No, the scream I feel welling up inside me...
Back-to-School Tips: (When your kids are too little for school)
Have you ever seen, “The Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring”? The first 5 minutes of the movie always gives me chills. Galadriel is speaking in the beautiful Elvish language, pouring slowly like a decanted wine. “(I amar prestar aen.)The world...
Call to Arms
As I’ve mentioned in previous blogs: “Ambition bred from discontentment is a dangerous journey leading to more discontentment.” I want to expound on this: there is always SOMETHING that triggers ambition and calls you to action. My thoughts lean toward the idea that...
Real World? Can’t Relate.
Maybe you know this feeling, this circumstantial environment, once familiar and comfortable, now foreign and challenging- navigating around normal people as a mom. They’re laughing. The group I’m standing with- LAUGHING! Apparently at something funny. I’m not sure...About Me
* I met my husband at IHOP (the pancake house)
* I love roller coasters but hate "rides"
* I am an ISFJ if that means anything to you