The house is un-tornadoed for the night, if you don't count the loads of laundry to fold both in the dryer and out, plus the torn-up...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Monday, Monday. Can't trust that day... Wait, that's not the right song for the day. It's a beautiful, sunny morning with the promise...

Today was to be Paint the Bookcase Day. Whatever else happened, the top priority was to paint the bookcases, rather 3 bookcases, all...

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...

Bunny, Leo the bunny, started off today munching away on his shoe box from Kara. This particular brand of cardboard must be especially...

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,...

If you ever come across a mom who seems scatter-brained, perhaps you are the mom who seems scatter-brained, let me illustrate one...

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...

Each new phase in mothering leaves me feeling inadequate to handle the problems the kids are facing, thus leaning heavily on the Lord for...

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...

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...

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...

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...