The doorbell rings repeatedly and three blonde heads with big blue eyes look through the glass door shouting, "We're home! We're home!". I open the …
on a love quest
Valentine's Day is coming. Maybe you think it is the best holiday ever and you relish the chance to eat chocolate unabashedly. Maybe you (like my …
the heart and the bottle
This is the new book on my list of favorite fiction books. The Heart and the Bottle by Oliver Jeffers. I swooned when I read it.It is very …
the selfish parent
Boy 2 was caught in the in-between yesterday at the Y. Two months too young for the room for bigger kids, and bored in the room with little people. …
what Christmas does
For eight hours the first day, we drive. Fields and farms, towns and buildings, scenes of life slide by us as we gaze out the windows of our van. …
Antonia
I was doing abs in the gym when I saw her. An elderly woman, with beautiful black hair and almond-shaped eyes, straining to maneuver from one place …
safe like a jail cell
This week, I have been alone a lot once the kids have gone to bed.I have realized that being alone is easy. There is no conflict. Alone is …
waiting room
A few weeks ago I saw this sweet elderly couple out for a walk in our neighborhood. She had a cane. He was holding her hand. My …
the man in the moon
There has been a lot of talk around our house lately about seeing God. Not so much the children, but Morgan and I seem to come back to that …
Separation, Schmeparation
For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor …
looking for love in all the right places
Jack: "You know what's crazy? God loves us even more than Mommy and Daddy."Jude: "I know! I can't even believe that's possible!"Jase: …
