This is one family outing I'd like to remember. To see our last weekend that merited an entire post of pictures with few words, click here. You all have a great week! …
Creating a Vision Board for Your Life
With the freshness of the new year, the concept of a vision board popped into my head and I almost instantly wrote down five words that I want to draw into my life. Coincidentally (or not so coincidentally?), I also happened to be thumbing through some old journals, and I came across the first …
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Why I Wish I Knew You as a Mom
Maybe we know each other better than we think we do... You can find the rest of this post at Simple As That. I can imagine you, doing all the same things I'm doing. Pushing the grocery cart with one hand because that crafty baby keeps escaping the flimsy seatbelt. Texting with …
It Was Never Random
I know I'll miss these years, too. Just like I miss the early days of Ryan and Erica. I wrote that line in 2007, two years after Ryan and I were married. I was looking back on the euphoria of our dating days and looking forward to the excitement of adding a baby to our family. Three months …
Why We Gave Up on Datenight
It comes down to one simple reason. I'm tired. I think it goes with the territory for, oh, twenty years or so when you are a parent. When our boys were little, only my husband or I could put them down for the night. So we'd plan to have a friend or a babysitter come over after they fell …
8 Easy Alternatives to Family Dinner
The book The Secrets of Happy Families has gotten me all fired up about being intentional with our family this year. I'm sure you've heard about the benefits before, but author Bruce Feiler talks about family dinner as "the single biggest predictor of better academic achievement and fewer behavior …
