Counting My Blessings, Being a Blessing to Others
Reading Time: 2 minutes Pass the tissue. I’m that mom. The one smiling in the pictures with an excited kindergartner off to the first day of school. But inside, I’m telling myself, “Deep breaths. You can do it.” I almost manage to send my final child off to school when a teacher asks, “Are you going to cry?” As …
Reading Time: 2 minutes The trunk is loaded. The inside of the car is crammed with snacks, pillows, and bags of nicknacks. I’m cruising down I-65. It’s the same trip that I was preparing to make 10 years ago. On August 8, 2008 at 11 pm, I signed off as “Nora Gathings” for the last time on WSBT, the …
Reading Time: 3 minutes There’s no winning or losing in our household. Winning is the only option, and everything in life can be turned into a competition. The girls needed to lose and learn to lose gracefully, so we signed them up for summer swimming. “Girls, not everything in life is a competition.” I find myself saying those words …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Glass half full? Or half empty? We’ve all heard the expression. Overused? Perhaps. The question itself is all about your viewpoint and how we tend to frame events as an optimist or pessimist. It took a few kicks in the gut this week and a very different perspective to realize that there are more than …
Reading Time: 3 minutes I can’t bake. There, I said it. Put a spatula and a box of cake mix in my hands. Stand back. A task seemingly dummy proof ultimately results in one heaping, hot mess. The more colorful the requests- a unicorn cake, sparkle rainbow frosting, or multi-layer “surprise,” somehow produce the masterpieces now affectionally known as …