a prayer…and then another prayer

This post was half-written yesterday and never finished and published, but I think it’s relevant and I’d like to go ahead and postdate it and publish it today: Since I can remember, I have always kept a prayer journal.  I have a hard time focusing on...

Restoring Balance

Somehow lately, I’ve been feeling like the world was closing in on me.  I don’t know why that is.  It’s that gnawing feeling that happens when you take on something new…something in addition to what you’re already doing.  And this new...

Sweet Life

This weekend was a beautiful weekend for our little family.  Nothing special was going on.  And to be honest, there’s lots to be done around our house.  None of us is feeling that well — we’ve all got this nasty cough and lots of congestion in our...

Mother of the Year

I’m a terrible, wretched person.  You know why?  Because the only thing on my mind right now is how to get my kids to LEAVE ME THE ____ ALONE!  Or truthfully, how to get everyone to leave me alone.  Isn’t that horrid?  It is the most beautiful, sunshiney...
Great Day

Great Day

Despite the fact that Mommy has been stricken with some sort of viral infection, bronchitis, laryngitis sort of thing that has made her worn out, we trudged onward and forward to the library for story time promptly at 10:30am this morning.  We had a great time.  Tate...