Category: Family
Reasons to Love My Adult Kids
Our adult children look at us with question. They shake their heads and smile. They laugh at us. They sometimes make fun of us. Above all else, they don’t understand one vital aspect of our life together. We …
Humbled to be your momma
Adult Kids. Tricky business at best. When your kids are little, all you can think about somedays is surviving. There were days I would be counting down the day by the activity. Dinner, bath, snack, story, and bedtime. …
25 to Life: A Small Reflection
25 years to life. Sept 12, 1992 my John and I were married. We were kids. I was 18, he was 19 and we had no idea how the future would play out. After 25 years of wedded …
These Hands
This hand holding onto mine. It has held onto mine in many cases, under many circumstances. These hands. The pair of them has held up my own when I was too weak to do it myself. They …
The Dirt that Lies Beneath: Installment 2
The Real Dirt The truth is I feel like a failure most days as a parent. Now, before you go saying a bunch of positive things you don’t mean, let me explain. Information has been kept from me. …
Approaching Christmas
Approaching Christmas, I am counting down to my favorite things about this coming weekend. Christmas at my parents’ house. Christmas with our own children and grandchildren. Christmas with some very good friends. A movie tradition with my husband. …
Thanksgiving is Eucharisteo
Chara means joy Charis means grace Eucharisteo means gave thanks One root word, building on another, building on another Chara. Charis. Eucharisteo. Thanksgiving from grace from joy. Joy becomes grace which becomes thanksgiving. All translations of root words …
The Raising of the Boys
These boys are disgusting, and I am their mother. Holy Smokes One time when the kids were small, I had someone tell me to pay special attention to the work it took raising a girl because, after all, …
Three Things I need to Know
Once we were married, we took trips to the lake, watching all of our kids swim and play in the sand, making a mess of themselves. We would pack up a cooler of favorite foods and stay all …
An Open Letter to Cancer
You have come in like a vengeance and stolen our lives. I see you, snaking you way through our friends and family, like the serpent in the garden, tricking Eve just when she was most vulnerable and alone. …
