what it is can be ok…
Good Morning! Cade’s five year well check is today and I took the morning off work to take him. He’s scared of shots and I’m don’t like…
when your heart needs to pray…
I scrub best when there’s something to pray…. My boys played with the wooden trains and argued over whose train was longer, faster, better… I stood at the sink and washed the week-old dirty…
Divorce isn’t an option…
…until it is. Because I promise you, divorce was never on my bucket list and yet, somehow, there it is.Scribbled in thick black, a tiny line scratched across the middle…
story
I used to hate the beach. My parents would pile me and all our stuff in the back of an Avalon for the 6 hour drive south- I was crammed…
wake up!
Now that school is out, I let the boys sleep in a little… more for my morning sanity, than their summer break… I grab clean clothes, search for their…
pieces to pick up…
she tells us how to fall in love. again. the anger burns and the tears swell until they fall, not because i need to do those things……
no crying in baseball…
This boy’s team lost out in the post-season tournament over the weekend. Kid after kid came out of the dugout heartbroken or stompin’ mad. I braced myself for my…
the vase on the shelf
it’s that pretty vase you want to keep safe, so you put it high on a shelf.and one day, you find the vase on the floor with a chip in…
the one about windows
I miss our windows in Germany. The solid panes of glass that opened like barn doors. The way the breeze flowed through the house, cooling it off without needing…