Counting My Blessings, Being a Blessing to Others
Reading Time: 2 minutes Store shelves are stocked with school supplies. Supply lists are out. Tax free weeks are approaching. Summer is quickly coming to an end. With school starting in less than three weeks, each day is becoming more precious. To make these last few weeks without after school activities, homework and other obligations that seem to steal …
Reading Time: 4 minutes When I step into my closet in the mornings to pick out an outfit, I usually already find a fairy, princess or ballerina (or two) perched on a ladder or hidden beneath the long dresses and pants. The small hands feeling the various fabrics and flipping through the hangers. At times, another head will appear …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Giggles, chatter and footsteps. Those little steps growing louder and closer. I’d spent a night in and out of bed soothing fears and refilling water cups. All were failed attempts to get a gaggle of excited girls to sleep. I’m exhausted. What was I thinking in allowing my daughter to invite nine first grade girls …
Reading Time: 3 minutes At 4:30 pm, the countdown starts. 30 minutes. Two pick ups. Two children to get changed, fed and to ballet, gymnastics, tap, or Girl Scouts’ across town. I survive it most afternoons…. barely. But there’s no time for error or detours, not even to get gas. In the midst of the carpool chaos a few …
Reading Time: 3 minutes We rouged our cheeks and pulled our stockings on. The girls and I even slicked our hair and buckled our shoes for a night filled with toe-tapping and all that jazz at a local theatre. The night lived up to the razzle, dazzle of numbers from the Broadway musical, “Chicago.” But somehow, this weekend’s standing …