Do you use family meetings in your home? Over the years we’ve started and forgotten about family meetings for various reasons. The kids seemed too young, was too hard to remember to do it consistently, were they even working??? Well, we picked them up again in the weeks before school started. And am I glad […]
10 years ago, it was a hot August night. I had spent most of the last few weeks walking our neighborhood as much as my body would permit. You see, I was not a patient expectant mom. I was dying to meet you and could not wait any longer. 10 years ago, you came into […]
Here I am again in the midst of a week long sleep away camp, this year for my oldest two kids. In the week preceding sleep away camp, we had our share of ups and downs. We had a whine-free day that was celebrated with a trip to the ice cream shop. We had an […]
You know those moments in a family where all the parts are working simultaneously, even separately, but the greater whole of the machine is humming and purring? Ahh, I call this flow. I savor these moments deeply. Katrina Kenison writes about these sweet moments of bliss in a way that makes me remember to take […]
For the past two days, I’ve been walking around like a mama bear whose lost a cub. I have been thinking about my oldest child whom we took to his first sleep away Sunday afternoon. He was ecstatic! The smell of the redwoods as the 3 of us approached the field for the first time […]