Today, as I was driving my girls home from the hospital (routine tube change for K), my mind wandered back to our church Seder meal last night and how lovely it was. My mind was full of images of my... Continue Reading →
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A few weeks ago, the discussion during our Lenten book study at church (which has been lovely all around and I highly recommend the book linked to above) revolved around how terrible humans tend to be at experiencing pain and... Continue Reading →
About a year ago, I wrote a post that went viral. Dan Rather's news site News and Guts shared it, and over a hundred thousand people read it. It was a post about our experiences with the brokenness of the... Continue Reading →
I feel like my heart has been rubbed raw lately. We've been dealing with some big things in our family, in addition to yet another school shooting where so many kids' (who were the same ages as my children) lost... Continue Reading →
K is thirteen today. Can you believe that?! It seems almost impossible, but she grew up so much while she was 12, it also seems exactly right. Her 13th trip around the sun was full of immense challenges and hardship,... Continue Reading →
Me and my gals have seen each other through break-ups, marriages, pregnancy scares, divorces, new babies, moves, new jobs, real-life brushes with death, morning sickness, hospital stays, depression and anxiety, sick kids, challenging family dynamics, illnesses, potty-training, preparing to send... Continue Reading →
I have a love/hate relationship with Facebook. I love being connected to so many friends, the glimpses of their minutia and highlights and even their low points. I doubly love the flashbacks feature and getting the peaks into my own... Continue Reading →
So it is the last day of 2017. What a year. As a family we had many ups and downs, and as a nation it was somehow even wilder. Some people really enjoy taking these last moments of the year... Continue Reading →
Dear friends and family, Another year has come and gone, and still, the complexities of getting this done and mailed in a timely fashion is just beyond me...so here it is, Christmas Eve and I am furiously typing this while... Continue Reading →
