Tomorrow we roll out for a ten hour road trip. And I’m looking forward to it. That’s a switch. I used to anticipate a road trip with the four kids about like anticipating a dentist appointment. It was necessary to get where we wanted to go, but I knew that it was...
“And how do we keep our balance? That I can tell you in one word: tradition!” The rest of the movie, The Fiddler on the Roof, is about Tevye trying to keep his balance in shifting traditions. Can you relate? Are you in a time of tradition transition? Maybe it’s a...
My sons had a smirk on their faces and cut knowing glances at Gary and me during last Sunday’s lunch. They knew that I had stretched a family rule when I left the TV on mute for our guests–loyal Cowboy fans wanting to follow the game. Big mistake. Charles just...
This month I knotted the last stitch on the quilt that I began 22 years ago. I was a young mom with a newborn son and was determined to be creative and productive in my new season of life. So, with the help of my Grandma Morris, I began a quilting project. When I look...
It’s the first week of school, and for the first time in 17 years not one of my kids needs a ride to school in the morning or will be looking for me as they file out of school following the release bell. Seventeen years ago when when we lived in Venezuela, our...
“I just wish that it was okay to raise mediocre kids.” It was summertime when my friend thought that her family would have a break from the pressure to perform, but she was still feeling it. The pressure stretched her family’s budget, their schedule...
