My goal is to instill a sense of respect for property.  I also want them to get that it’s about self-esteem.  Because when you know who...

My son runs up to me, “I cut myself.”  I ask him how he did it and he tells me he was using his pocketknife in the backyard.  This is the...

Our two children have been very different in their meltdown behavior.  Our firstborn, being that his every need was met from day one,...

In my family we don’t call it being picky, we call it enjoying our options.  As a child I would watch as my mother would order her...

I’m glad he said these words.  I needed to hear them.  Even though I lived with him and saw him working in our kitchen and in a...

My son’s gifts are quantifiable.  I can tick them off on my fingers.  I often speak of them to others, as in, today my son mastered this...

Instead, I was standing, hands on my hips telling a six year old girl that in the future she should probably not climb onto a chair then...

We maintain the right for any other child to believe in Santa.  I lecture the children almost daily during the Christmas season about not...

My newest mom-title is Shield.  I remember as a child hearing my parents whisper things, knowing there were always discussions that did...

After three years of sleeping in the same room, tonight my children will sleep apart for the first time.  For a while now they’ve each...

From the back seat, “Is Jesus more important at Christmas?”  Oh, my, teach me patience during the holidays.  There are still twenty eight...

Around our house the phone is for quick texts sent to remind that bread and peanut butter are low, that work is running late, that the...

Yesterday while shopping, my daughter saw an awful princess chair.  It was plastic and gaudy and ugly.  To her it was a dream.  She had...

But try putting six girls and one boy into a house together and ignoring gender.  All of a sudden doors are closed so princess dresses...

And then today, as I stood blow drying my hair, innocently unaware that my daughter had popped into my bathroom, I felt a tap on my leg....

We keep our windows open at night, trying to get the bit of crisp air that comes through the mountains.  In years past it’s been enough,...

I don’t tag to annoy or even intentionally include other people in pictures. It’s usually because the people happen to be in a photo I...

I love nothing more than to see this happen. I know it means so many little cogs are rotating and synapses are sparking inside those...