“Slow down.” These words rise from heart to head each morning as I wake. I hear them walking away from a networking meeting at the small, brick café down the street. I hear them when the kids whirl around the kitchen like snowflakes in a blizzard and it’s...
Photo Credit In the rush between dinner and dessert, in the harried press to Get-These-Kids-to-Bed, four-year-old Isaiah remembers. Running through the house, he shouts, “Guys! We need to do our yeaves!” // My family is growing leaves again this...
Photo credit Often, it’s a restless night and bad dreams that tell me I forgot. Other times it’s the way I snap and growl at my children in the morning. It’s not that they’re worse than normal, but I’m less tolerant, carrying my own internal agitation...
I hate Skittles. I do not want to, as the slogan goes, “Taste the rainbow.” If a Skittle accidentally fell into my mouth, I would spit it out. This is how I feel about most candy. Except for sour patch kids. Levi and Isaiah, however, like...
(THIS is the lovely view across the street from our house. Amazing.) When the day starts with your huggy-boy not willing to give you a hug. Then progresses to yelling and hitting. When you let them watch way more T.V. than they should and it only...
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