“Mom! Mom!” “I can’t hear you with the shower running in my ears…” “MOM! The kitchen is smoking!” I go running, barely getting a towel across my six month belly, tearing down the hallway soaking wet with soap in my hair expecting all the burners to be turned on and catching things on fire like…
When Daddy is away the key in my book is distraction and relaxed creativity. In other words, some rules that normally apply such as bedtime routine, limited snuggle time in mommy’s bed, and adventures to normal sites are all out the window. We adventured far and wide, missing dinner and improvising with sleeves of Ritz…
BOOM! “Ooooh! Ahhhh!” the crowd responds in exclamations of joyful celebration! Another 4th of July has been celebrated!
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart.” – Jeremiah 1:5a Aside from the physical oddities of pregnancy there is also the miraculous wonder of it all. It is a part of Heaven that comes to earth with little understanding of how the rapid development…
Rory is sitting beside me on the office stool. We are both wagging our heads to some fun spicy summer jazz tunes and admiring the summer sunset, through the window, bathing the freshly cut bright green front lawn (cut on the diagonal, my favorite!). She is “coloring” a hot rod car a bright sizzling red…