Last weekend we celebrated Madeline’s sixth birthday with friends and family. Sometime last year she became obsessed with pirates and the idea of searching for lost treasure. So it came as no big surprise when she requested a pirate-themed birthday bash. She had only two requests for the party: 1. That we have a treasureRead the whole post >>
Love Them Well
Imagine this: As you’re in the midst of school, you hear the toilet still running so you swing open the bathroom door to find a lake on the floor and a gushing waterfall coming from the commode. Later that same day your preschool daughter who is completely potty trained but sometimes has trouble pooping inRead the whole post >>
To My Big Girl
Dear Madeline, I’ve been writing birthday letters to you and your sisters every year, and you’d think these sentimental snippets would get easier as you grew and started doing more interesting stuff than just babbling, toddling about, and excreting, but it’s tough to sum up what you mean to me as you grow older, biggerRead the whole post >>
Believing Through the Hardest Times
This is an old column from Faith & Family LIVE, but it just feels so appropriate right now, and I’m still not finding adequate time to write new stuff. I just read a magazine article about how the people of Haiti are still struggling to rebuild their lives. We were shocked and devastated when theRead the whole post >>
Interruptions and Intentions
Here’s one from the 2009 archives. I need this one right about now because the blasted time change has thwarted my early morning quiet time, and my little larks are popping out of bed way too early. “Try interrupting the meditations of someone who is very attached to her spiritual exercises and you will seeRead the whole post >>
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