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“I wish my body would catch up to my mind.” My silly 11-year-old still thinks that his only prob­lem is that his beard hasn’t grown in yet. Last week he was jump­ing around the liv­ing room like a bloomin’ idiot because “I have a chin hair!!!!” After look­ing at it closely I chuck­led and handed him […]

Image by juantomas.garcia via Flickr I don’t know about you, but I always feel like, after a long hia­tus on this blog, I have to have a “re-entry” post to kind of segue back into blog-life. Grem­lin was fed after mid­night: After a very scary asthma attack, my youngest son’s doc­tor finally agreed that despite […]

Image by Getty Images via @daylife Sev­eral years back a co-worker died after bat­tling can­cer. She was young with chil­dren at home. But she knew her death was com­ing so she was able to plan her funeral and last wishes to the ‘T’. She had a beau­ti­ful memo­r­ial and so many loved ones came to […]

This sounds lamely sim­ple but before I started using it, my boys made me gray! Sched­ule Rou­tine. Profound…I know. I took a small dry erase board and put it up in the kitchen with the weeks sched­ule by the hours. This way the boys would wake up and know exactly when some­thing was going to occur. […]

Grem­lin, my 6 year old, is still at that age that he likes to cud­dle with me and reflect on things we see or maybe some­thing we’ve done together. How­ever Old­man, my 10 year old,is ‘much too old for that silli­ness’. So when he takes the time to sit with me and pon­der life I […]

Yes­ter­day morn­ing I yelled at my son. He had a baby molar that had broke in two and needed to come out. It had been loose for weeks, but because it was broke it stung when wig­gled. A visit to the den­tist showed that it was prob­a­bly suction-cupped to the gums. I told him he had […]