Counting My Blessings, Being a Blessing to Others
Reading Time: 1 minute The holidays are here. Like any good mom, I’m rolling out to dough to decorate Christmas cookies with my children. It’s fun, right? Not really. Baking is rather stressful. By the time I done, my kitchen is covered in sugar and flour, mysterious goop cakes nearly every baking tool, smoke is bellowing out of the …
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: 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: 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 …
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 …