Mom

I don’t generally write birthday posts for those outside my kids and Dave, because there are a LOT of them and this whole blog would be spilling out with birthdays. But today my mother turns seventy-five years old and she LOVES attention on her birthday (HA! I kid because she…

A short sum-up: life was crazy, then I wrapped everything up and headed to South Carolina, so anxious to meet up with all those velvety sisters and mother I adore. There is nothing like an “MFME” trip with your mom and sisters to buoy you up in every way you…

Growing up my dad was a pro at the guilt trip routine. And he’s passed that “skill” on to his daughter (much to her childrens’ chagrin…ha!) So it was good to give him a little of his own medicine to get him (and my mom) down to the desert for…

I’m still celebrating Mother’s Day around here. That’s my Mother’s Day gift to myself, I’m stretching out honoring the mothers I love. Ha! But seriously, does anyone else get a little overwhelmed on Mother’s Day? There’s so much to think about…how you’re doing as a mother, how you want to…

I’ve had some pictures on my computer ready to blog for a year from Grammie Camp last year. Somehow China got in the way of finishing that up. So I figure now is just as good a time as ever to sing praises to my dear mother, who puts lots…

…and your kids do too. (My Mom came first and then Charity surprised them, oh how they love that “favorite Aunt” of theirs!) My Mom decided to come for Grace’s big dance concert since my Dad got to be here for Max and Elle’s tennis and volleyball stuff during the…

By: Linda Eyre As Memorial Day comes and goes this year, I (Linda) am celebrating those heroines who came before me: my Grandmothers!  Most of them I never knew but their stories find me and bind me to their heroic lives!  In addition I’m thinking of the lives of the…

I love my Mom. Oh wait, I already said that. But I really, really do. She is probably the most giving, thoughtful, selfless, humble, nurturing, beautiful-inside-and-out person I know. And she’s one of my best friends in all the world. My kids think she’s pretty spectacular as well. When I…

Another Time Out for Women has come and gone. This one was a little different from the others for three reasons: 1) it was close to my home-town, so it was so fun (and also a little nerve-wracking:) to have so many familiar faces there, 2) it was the second…

I’m so grateful for a family who raised me to believe in doing hard things and who still wrap their arms around me when I need them. And it makes me tear up a little when I think about how grateful I am that they are extending that love so…