What To Do with a Bad Attitude
Life’s daily responsibilites are hard enough to navigate through without adding the crushing burden of bad attitudes. This morning I …
Category Archives: family
A Potpourri Day
Our girls’ school conducts once-a-year week-long achievement testing for its students; this week is the week. In order to get …
Mom – Lizard Wrangler
This afternoon around 3:00 pm, I gave my two middle school girls a choice: you may either go outside and …
Popularity – Can’t I Just Slide it Under the Door?
For those of us who struggle with a desire for popularity… I was standing in the bathroom the other day …
Two Bags of Pistachios
This last week my eldest daughter celebrated her 14th birthday. Grandma has been out visiting also, and has been with …
Tourists! “We’ve Been Had!”
A couple of years ago our family was traveling to a family reunion; our destination was a cabin high up …
To Stimulate Thought and Conversation
Sometimes to stimulate thought and conversation, I throw out a random question to my daughters. One day at lunch I …
A Curious Incident
TODAY THE BLOG FEATURES A GUEST BLOGGER – my daughter. (She wrote this story yesterday and shared it with us at …
To Promote Good Reading Habits
Our family – my husband, our two middle-school girls and me – have developed a habit of reading aloud together …
Jailbreak!
Earlier this week I was enjoying my after-lunch rest time – we call it “rest and reading”. It’s a time …
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