Proud Parenting Moments, No. 4,376 I couldn’t not tell you all this story. Consider it my public confession—my “mea culpa” on behalf of this kid. Yesterday, my husband and I attended an area meeting for the People of Praise. We brought our three youngest with us: Angela, 12, who was helping out in the childcare; George, 7, who had an "Arrows" … [Read more...]
30 Posts in 30 Days?
What do you know? I'm over halfway there. It's both killing me AND making me stronger. (This kid, too, is both killing me and making me stronger.) (What a little stink he is!) (But extremely cute, so he gets away with it.) The thing about blogging daily is--actually, there are LOTS of things, but the big one for me is … [Read more...]
A Glass Half Full Kinda Amputee
"If my left leg was cut off, I'd be thankful that it wasn't my right leg 'cause I can hop really well on my right leg." * * * In other news, I miss this space! Do you miss me back? 'Cause I'm trying--trying!--to find the time to spend blogging, but I'd love a little online hug. {hint hint} I have so many posts lined up for you! Our grad … [Read more...]
Armed & Ready: My Firstborn’s High School Graduation
In heading into this last week before our grad party... I wish I could say I was as confident as this. I wish I had the unabashed strength of a two-year-old—a strength in spirit if nothing else. I wish I felt ready to host a hundred people. I wish my garage were already clean. "Would you just trust me?" My husband is … [Read more...]
The Gift{s} of Pentecost
Gifts. Plural. There are thousands of them that I could be requesting today, and also thousands of things for which I'm thankful. Like this little guy: ...who turns six today! This year, he shares his birthday with the Church. : ) You may remember that George is our miracle boy, a gift (there's that word!) from God after four … [Read more...]
On being the Bipolar Mom of Double Bookend Boys
[Including, but not limited to, a son who will be graduating from high school in three short weeks] I appear to be at a point in my life where either I blog it all or not at all. I was surprised to click over here yesterday and see that I haven't posted anything since the start of May. "How can this be?" I asked myself, "When life is full full … [Read more...]
The Face of Five & the Wonderful, Terrible, Terrifically Challenging Two’s
My 5-year-old takes me on flights of fancy. "How you make wood, Mama," he said, whittling away, "is you carve little bits like this. I have to make little wood pieces. I have to wait a couple minutes or hours for it to dry out because did you know that wood from a stick is wet? I'm making a house. Do you see all the progress I've … [Read more...]
My Eagle Scout
As promised, here are some of the photos from my son's Eagle Court of Honor. It was held on Sunday, April 12th, and was a very fun and busy day, the culmination of his career as a Scout. I'm a proud mama, certainly. (Proud and tired. Thank goodness for coffee.) I was up way too late the night before, assembling his photo board and … [Read more...]
The Wings to Fly: Thoughts about Honesty, Temperance and my Son becoming an Eagle Scout
Let's start with the fun, exciting news: My son's Eagle Scout court of honor was yesterday! I have some nice photos from the day but won't be sharing them until tomorrow because our computer, annoyingly, keeps crashing when I try to access the files. This made assembling the Court of Honor slideshow quite stressful, but the coffee and Redd's … [Read more...]
The Early Bird Catches the Joke Worm
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