Gradually, as my children are gone during the day, I hoping to ease into having more time to blog. (Not happening yet, but I think it will here in the next couple weeks.) As has been quite evident, this blog took a bit of a back seat this summer. I let go of posting every…
School’s out and we couldn’t be happier about that little fact over here. I’m going to try to stick in a Friday Q&A every so often to mingle in with the 110 toes thing. I stopped a while ago because it took so much time but so does the Eyre memory stuff so I’m going…
I, for one, am SO EXCITED that summer is here. (As long as I try not to think about the fact that it means my kids are one year older.). I just love that the summer is OURS. No one bossing around our schedule. But I know summer can be a little intimidating for moms…
The other place we have spent the majority of our time lately (aside from the volleyball courts with Max) is at every high school tennis court in the valley. This girl has played a LOT of tennis this season. Elle played on the Varsity team most of the season and had some wing-dinger matches. I…
Today instead of writing up some recipe that will give short-term happiness, I’m writing about a recipe for the long-term happy stuff. You see, Dave’s brother and his wife are pretty remarkable people. They think things through better and deeper than anyone I know. And they recently wrote a book. A book about the science…
I finished this book a little while ago: And I can’t stop thinking about it and the lessons I found in it’s pages. You can kinda tell I liked it by how many pages I folded over like this as I read: This picture can’t do it justice:…because I swear I turned over practically every…
I just re-read this post from a couple years ago while searching for inspiration on my teenagers and the notes I took on that talk long ago were golden to me once again. So grateful for talks I’ve been able to listen to that “keep on giving.” The things I learned that spoke to me…