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When I turned 9, my par­ents bought me the coolest diary…with a lock! I felt so grown up. But as much as I loved it, I didn’t even write in it until almost a year later. After the ini­tial entry, it wasn’t used again until we moved to India a year or so later. It quickly […]

Old­man enjoy­ing his birth­day cake! Word­less Wednesday

I will never be able to ade­quately explain that feel­ing of over­whelm­ing love, heart-stopping pride, yet cau­tious con­cern that a mother has for her child. The idea that this “feel­ing” is just a touch of what our Heav­enly Father feels for us dri­ves me crazy. I suck as a child of God. When Grem­lin wraps […]

Image by Kyle Kessel­ring via Flickr It seems like I’ve flip-flopped for two years on when the best time to do home­work would be. I know the per­son­al­ity of the child should be taken into mind, and their grade, but I still strug­gle with it. Grow­ing up my folks would let me go out and play […]

Two weeks ago was the Ozark State Fair. Now, I am in no way high and mighty, but unless I just want to get a laugh out of life, I don’t go to fairs or car­ni­vals. What is it with Far­ris Wheels that brings every odd duck out of all the dark cor­ners of town? I did […]

Image via Wikipedia The boys are freak­ing out. I’m freak­ing out.…in  a good way. School starts in 4 weeks and I…can’t…wait! Old­man is already stress­ing that he might get a teacher that he really doesn’t like. That he might have to wear jeans again. That he hasn’t mem­o­rized his mul­ti­pli­ca­tion tables like he was sup­posed to! Gremlin’s really only […]