I wish I had a better camera to capture the colorful remains of Jonah’s snack and coloring time this morning. Better start looking for those missing purple and black crayons!

Every day brings a fresh imponderable or two. These are the questions I’ve been mulling over lately and finding rather unanswerable. 1. Why will kids eat just about anything off their Mom’s plate, but when she makes them their own serving, they turn their little noses up at it? 2. Why do my kids’ fingernails [...]

A funny thing happened in the church nursery this morning. First, you must know that Jonah has a love/hate relationship with the nursery, as do most of the toddlers there. We call it the weekly meeting of the Moms’ Club because none of us can leave our kids without major meltdowns. So we hang out, [...]

1. I hold this mouse gingerly and type cautiously, for my carpal tunnel is inflamed. 2. Donnie is someone I like to travel with because he is awesome at fitting into the trunk all the suitcases stuffed with all the crap useful items I pack. Because I pack like my mother—as if we were going [...]

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate [...]