Dear Sweet Girl, I wanted to write you a letter as I turn 30 for you to open and read when you turn 30 {and I’ll be 56… YIKES}. I thought of doing this the other day when I tucked you into bed and you asked me to lay down next to you and scratch […]
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A Personal Revelation:: How I Discovered I Am Enough
It started with a conversation. Have you ever talked to someone and they said something so profound that it stopped you in your tracks? Sometimes, all you need is an unbiased perspective from another person to help you see things a little more clearly. That’s what happened to me. It’s funny how life works; I […]
Losing a Legend:: Mary Higgins Clark, the Queen of Suspense
A fixture on best-seller lists for decades, Mary Higgins Clark died at the graceful age of 92 on the last day of January after seeing the calendar roll into 2020. I’ve always been a voracious reader. Even before I could read and interpret the words for myself, I memorized the pages and refused to let […]
The Important Thing About Moms
…But the most important thing about mom is that she loves me. When our most recent foster kiddos came to us, they let it be known that books were a rarity in their house. Being in our home must have looked like Belle when she entered the Beast’s library because there are books literally stacked […]
Measuring Life in Dinosaur Years
A green dinosaur resides on a wall in our family room. He’s been there for a long time, silently watching us play, read, and watch TV in our gathering place. Each December, the children lean their backs against him as my husband marks the spot where the top of their head meets the dinosaur’s long […]
Happy Thanksgiving?:: When You Struggle with an Attitude of Gratitude
November is my favorite month of the year:: the start of, hopefully, blessedly cool days like today, my son’s birthday, my birthday, and one of my favorite holidays, Thanksgiving. Some see Thanksgiving as just the kick off to the Christmas, or worse, skip over it altogether to focus on a more festive season, but I […]
Cheering for My Kids On and Off the Field
If you notice that our trunk is filled with camping chairs, you might understand. We’ve just survived our first season of school sports. My twins just played their first seasons of football and ran on their school’s cross country team. It was chaotic. And exhausting. And my three-year-old started calling our minivan “home.” But there […]
Waves, Seashells, and Broken Things
“What do you think, buddy?” I pushed the loose strands of hair out of my face, their curls whipping my skin in the salty air and stinging my forehead. He looked out over the ocean, his own summer-grown mop of straw being tugged from his head as though the wind were trying to steal the […]
The Cottage Life:: How My Life and Perspective Changed After Harvey
Today is the second anniversary of the natural disaster that changed so many Houston families’ lives forever. I want to preface this post by saying I’m fully aware how incredibly lucky I am to have this outlook on Hurricane Harvey. I know this experience is so far from most people’s, and I do not wish […]
Fleeting Emojis and Cordless Phones:: Why Technology Can’t Replace Human Connection
When was your last meaningful instance of human connection? When was the last time you actually spoke to somebody on the phone instead of a text? When did you last have a meaningful conversation where you spoke into the phone, the other person responded and you continued this back and forth banter for some time? […]