kitchen sink

I bought a handful of star ornaments that first Christmas in Germany; the year was 2007. I’d wandered down the hill on the icy cobblestone with Austin and we trekked…

  My eyes are closed and my head rests back on the seat- holding on until the plane levels out. I hold my breath. My arms reach across either side…

    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…

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…

…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…

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…

  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…

      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……

  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…