Yesterday was a weird day. It began with an emotional toddler who would not be pacified no matter what I tried. Stupidly, I took him to Michael’s to “quickly” exchange…
I rolled to the left. Then I rolled back to the right. I stretched out one leg, then I stretched out the other. I reached out my arm, fluffed my…
My husband is a gracious man so he won’t admit this openly, but I have a long history of embarrassing him in public. Take the Chocolate Cake Incident of 2009….
Two and a half years ago, Ike and I drove across town once a week, for 10 weeks, to attend a birthing class. We wanted to learn as much as…
It wasn’t long after we found out we were having another boy that I began to field this question from people: “Do you think you’ll ever try for a girl?”…
At some time or another, every person has the following, ground-shifting realization: I am not a kid anymore. I’m an adult. It’s time to let go and grow up. This…
Two summers ago, Ike and I endured a situation that we never hope to relive. I can’t go into the specifics of it, but the bare bones of it is…
Two nights ago Ike put our son to bed, walked into the living room, settled in on the couch, then turned to me and smiled. “Do you know what Isaac…
Here’s something I learned this week: Although you would never know it from the movies, you should never save a drowning person by diving in after them. Not at first,…
