Scenes from a Mexican restaurant

Scenes from a Mexican restaurant

Several years ago I started a tradition of taking the kids out for a special lunch on their birthdays. We have birthdays in clumps in our family, so yesterday was a double lunch celebration for my newly six-year-old (yesterday) son and four-year-old (Monday) daughter....
Nice Matters!

Nice Matters!

My mother always told my that being nice matters, and I guess it’s true! I am pleased and honored to receive this award from Marybeth at Cheaper by the Half Dozen and Melanie at Queen of a Disney Castle.  Thanks ladies!

Friendship through a child’s eyes

I’ve found that there are situations I simply don’t know how to handle unless I’ve been there myself. I never knew how to comfort a woman who’d miscarried a child until it happened to me. Because my mother spent many years using a cane,...

Simply Devastated

Me, to 7-year-old daughter (a.k.a. Drama Queen): Why aren’t you helping your sister fold the clothes? 7-year-old daughter: She told me that she didn’t want my help. . . (dramatic pause) and I am SIMPLY DEVASTATED! (Imagine how Anne of Green Gables would...

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