The Un-Tornado
The emoji with the wide open eyes and a look that says "Eek!" is appropriate every time I step into my daughter's room to clean it. I had...
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GOAL: WRITE FOR 10 MINUTES/DAY
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- Mar 19, 2021
- 2 min
Pie & Ice Cream For Lunch
Some days, I'd like to crawl back into bed and restart the day on a different note. That was today. I'm not going to use this post to...
- Mar 16, 2021
- 2 min
Loaf of Bunny
I have a few minutes here before picking up the kids from school. The house feels too quiet. I'm running laundry and the dishwasher right...
- Mar 16, 2021
- 3 min
One Year With Jesus
March 15th marks the day my brother Jordan died unexpectedly one year ago. Our family has gathered for the past few days to spend time...
- Mar 13, 2021
- 2 min
Campfire-ing With Cousins
My sister, her husband, and their three children came late last night for a stay at our house for the next few nights during some family...
- Mar 11, 2021
- 2 min
How Much Cleanup Really Happens When Children Clean Up?
What does cleaning up the kitchen look like at your house? At my house, the picture is different depending on the time of day. If I...
- Mar 10, 2021
- 1 min
What Challenge?
I couldn't figure out why I was so tired at 4:00 in the afternoon, a tiredness that followed me through until 7:00 and later. Well, it...
- Mar 8, 2021
- 4 min
Squirrel Cleaning
Today was to be Paint the Bookcase Day. Whatever else happened, the top priority was to paint the bookcases, rather 3 bookcases, all...
- Mar 6, 2021
- 1 min
Productive Procrastination
I just read this blog post from my sister about the goodbyes that you never get to say as a mother: goodbye to one phase, hello to...
- Mar 5, 2021
- 2 min
Bunny, Tuscan Chicken, & Hurry-Up Cleanup
Bunny, Leo the bunny, started off today munching away on his shoe box from Kara. This particular brand of cardboard must be especially...
- Mar 3, 2021
- 2 min
Sometimes We Get It Right
I've been too lax in writing this week. I'm not sitting on my thumbs, though. Who has time for that? Every once in awhile in parenting,...
- Feb 27, 2021
- 5 min
Moms Are Scatter-Brained For a Reason
If you ever come across a mom who seems scatter-brained, perhaps you are the mom who seems scatter-brained, let me illustrate one...
- Feb 25, 2021
- 3 min
Gray Hair Souvenirs
I've never once colored my hair. Now I'm seeing, especially after a hard day of dealing with whatever blankety-blank came up, gray...
- Feb 24, 2021
- 1 min
Mothering and Flowers
Each new phase in mothering leaves me feeling inadequate to handle the problems the kids are facing, thus leaning heavily on the Lord for...
- Feb 23, 2021
- 2 min
Chicks and Weekend Bits
It's been an eventful weekend, and I didn't write. Messed up on the daily goal of writing, but I'm back at it today. On Sunday, we had a...
- Feb 20, 2021
- 3 min
Beef as a Sport
If eating were a sport, then we would have done our best tonight in exhibiting our talents in that arena. We is defined as another...
- Feb 19, 2021
- 2 min
Another Sledding Day
Will the kids go to school at all this week? So far, it's been an unplanned break. No school today either. We just make the best of it...
- Feb 18, 2021
- 2 min
Bunny's Hard Life, Coffee, and Mortality
We've had a few more whiplash days this week, although, I guess I should reclassify them from whiplash to something that would be more...
- Feb 16, 2021
- 2 min
A Happy Whiplash Day
Today was what I call a whiplash day: what plans I had were suddenly scrapped and replaced with who-knows-what due to the snow-related...
- Feb 15, 2021
- 1 min
The Love Tax
Today is Valentine's Day, in case you missed all the red hearts plastered everywhere. We don't pay much attention to Valentine's Day...
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