She’s Driving and I’m Waving My Hands and Lecturing Loudly

A friend was recently giving me an update on how it’s going–now that his oldest child is behind the wheel. He said he grips the door handle and yells a lot, and it seems to be working!I laughed and told him I’d have to try his grip-n-yell technique....

The Smallest Guy on the Field

He called at 6:45 p.m. to say he was ready to be picked up, but I had accidentally forgotten my phone.I didn’t get there till 8:00 p.m.It was a long night for my boy.It was a ‘pickup game’ of lacrosse. But apparently he had more skills to pick up...

Without Grumbling or Questioning??

I was in Target recently, shopping in the athletic wear, when a conversation in the next aisle made me lose all interest in gym shorts. In stead of outfitting my son for track, what I wanted to do was go find this little girl, who was talking to her mom. She was like...

Angry Car Thumper

First, can I just comment that a lot of my writing material comes from Costco? (Like this and this and this.) I can’t decide if it’s because I’m at Costco all the time, or because extraordinary things happen there. Maybe both.So I was driving through...

Exceptional Mom: Jennifer

Jen has a little wall hanging in her house that reads, “The Best Place in the World is Together”.She remembers fondly a time that she and the kids were making plans for the day. A suggestion was made that they would split up, with Daddy and one sister...

Words that Give Rise

Words of blessing, allowed to sift into a soul’s murky depths, often act like yeast. Over time, these yeast-like words have the power to activate and give rise to areas of giftedness which otherwise might have lain dormant. Words can cause people to rise and expand...

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