This Christmas, I had many expectations. As you can tell from my last post, some things have happened this season that have totally exceeded my expectations. And those were the things that mattered most. But today I’m choosing to let go of other, more trivial expectations- three, to be exact. None of the three looked […]
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Every year, without fail, I write down my New Year’s Resolution, “Organize House.” Maybe I should just create a template that I can use every year instead of having to expend energy in writing out those two words. It’s not that I don’t try. I do. I sort through endless school papers, give away boxes
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Sometimes we don’t quite know where we stand as a cook. Other times, it’s crystal clear. Tonight, I set out plates of whitefish, quinoa, and broccoli and smile to myself. “What a truly wonderful mother I am, serving yet another healthy, delicious dinner to my family.” I light a candle and sit down, drinking in
The Sober Reality of my Cooking Read More »
Sometimes it’s hard to do the right thing. This morning, I read in Psalm 15, “O Lord, who can abide in Your tent? Who can dwell on Your holy hill? She who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks truth in her heart; who does not slander with her tongue and does no
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I thought about abandoning the audition and going home. We had already waited for an hour in a lobby full of other little boys outside a meeting room in the Nashville Hutton Hotel, and I had a crazy night ahead of me with 3 other boys’ activities back in Nolensville. And, along with my angst over the recent firing
Justin’s Cracker Barrel Commercial – The Rest of the Story Read More »
Lights, Camera, Action! A few weeks ago, my two youngest boys were soooo sad to miss school for two whole days to star in a short film by the production company Seventh Story as a promo for an upcoming Lifeway parenting conference called “Etch.” I got to play their mom.
Warning: This 2-minute Parenting Film May Require Tissues Read More »
Parenting is not for the faint of heart. Or soul. Or body. Especially if one has boys. This past Saturday night is a case in point. Brace yourself. My husband was away at a campout with the two oldest, supervising an airsoft gun war. That sounds dangerous. I’m more than happy to stay safe at
The Night My Son Dislocated My Knee Read More »
Tears streamed down the little ballplayer’s face and his shoulders shook as he sat, dejected in the dugout. He had failed to hit the ball again. His dad/coach marched into the dugout. “There will be no crying on the ball field, do you understand me? No crying! You are not a baby!” The boy buried
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On the morning of my third son’s 8th birthday, he was determined to get rid of the old to make room for the new. It was a painful process, fraught with stops and starts, tenacity and even…blood. Eek! But then, for many of us, the process of getting rid of the old to make room for the
Out With the Old, In With the New Read More »
I’m just a middle-class country girl. I don’t own a fancy gown, and if we ever have steak, we have to use our steak knives to cut it. Chew it long enough and we call it “steak gum.” With 4 boys and 5 pets, I do things like clean stinky feet with wipies and walk
The Night we had a Ball- in the ER Read More »