I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about Christmas lately. I’ve been thinking about how so many of us will not be seeing relatives from far away and I’ve been thinking about how so many families might be in a situation where this could be the last Christmas for some of their older relatives and […]
making memories
I Created The Problem. And Now I’m Fixing It.
We had the longest school year ever this year, and our last day of school was June 29th. Including weekends, today was our twentieth day of summer vacation. And that’s how long it took me to reach my breaking point. Twenty days. The kids have been home for three weeks, but it feels like three […]
Tonight I took some time to be a human being, instead of a human doing.
Tonight I was going to write a post after I set the kids up with a movie. But instead, I plunked right down on the floor with them and watched Rudolph. Not too many more years they’re gonna want to do that with me. Don’t forget to slow down this holiday season. It goes by fast […]
Say cheese.
When I was a kid, we had this dresser in the hallway at the top of the stairs. The top drawer was full of pictures. Just loose snapshots. Every once in a while, I would pull out the drawer, sit on the floor, and look at them. I loved looking at those pictures, especially the […]