Posted in Lessons on Mar 4th, 2008
Don’t you just love it when your kids do something sweet and innocently beautiful? Something that you’ll remember for the rest of your life because it was so darn cute and endearing? Logan crawled into bed with me a couple mornings ago. As I tried to go back to sleep — I’m not quite ready [...]
Posted in Lessons on Feb 20th, 2008
I realized on the way to my twin girls’ very first basketball game this fall that I was clutch-the-steering-wheel-as-your-knuckles-turn-white nervous. Never mind that they’re only in fourth grade or that I, myself, am about as athletically inclined as a napkin (though come to think of it, perhaps that’s why I was so nervous). What if [...]
Posted in Eye-openers on Feb 10th, 2008
I wrote the following a couple years ago because the situation took me so off guard, but I feel it’s still worth sharing. The other day my daughter informed me that a boy in her second-grade class said she is “hot.” Excuse me?!?! Did I actually just hear this? Although my jaw pretty much dropped [...]
Posted in Introduction on Feb 9th, 2008
I know, I know — there are a million blogs about parenting out there. So why, oh why, would I decide to create one of my own, you ask? The answer is that I consider myself somewhat of a parenting expert, thanks to my four children and their assorted health issues. I’m a freelance writer and [...]
