Last night someone asked me for my thoughts regarding kids and back talk. Ooooooh. Backtalk. I hate back talk. It’s annoying and frustrating and embarrassing, at times, infuriating. It’s infuriating at those times when our kids talk to us in a way that is completely rude and disrespectful and we KNOW we have taught them […]
Parenting
The Test Scores That Really Matter
In our school district, the elementary schools administer tests to the kids in September as a way of assessing reading skills. We just received the results from these tests this past week. As I expected, the kids performed very well. Two of them scored above the 95th percentile in multiple areas. Does it feel good […]
Do Your Kids Remember What They Got for Christmas Five Years Ago?
A couple days ago a friend of mine shared an article on Facebook entitled It Turns Out That Traveling Makes Us Far Happier Than Any Material Wealth Ever Does. I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. It’s partly because our financial situation has improved, and so now being able to travel at least a […]
Clutter May Be Increasing Your Debt
If you are overwhelmed and in debt and feel like you are drowning and there is no help in sight, I can relate. But don’t give up hope! If you are willing to make some changes, you can definitely climb out of the hole. It won’t be easy, but it’s easier than what you are […]
I need a hug.
Marriage continues to challenge me. Before I go any further, by acknowledging that I still struggle with many aspects of my marriage, I am in no way accepting full responsibility for all of the issues in it. Every time I write a post about my struggles in my marriage, someone inevitably comments with “it’s not all […]
Nothing Is Safe
A couple weeks ago I told you the story about… THE ROBES. About a week after that, I was in Costco, and all the Christmas stuff was out in full effect. There were a couple things I saw that I knew the kids would LOVE, and still being on a mission to not leave Christmas […]
