Ken and I stopped to get a sandwich the other day, and were waiting in line to order when I noticed a man with his daughter. The girl looked to be about 14 or 15, and had just returned to her dad’s table after filling her drink.The man smiled kindly and said,...
“Mommy, I just took my socks off ’cause they got wet from the paint.”He said it as he was whizzing past–sockless–on his way up from the basement to go outside. “What paint?” I called after him.”That paint on the...
Lindsay is our first child–our parenting ‘experiment’. Only, as a preschooler, she provided an invalid hypothesis: She made parenting seem easy. If we used a stern voice, she would drop her head and comply. If we gave her one warning, and the...
My friend recently told me about being part of the meals ministry at church.She would be tying polka dot ribbons around her tidy tinfoil packages of steaming hot, delicious food, and tucking her added gift of little kitchen towels strategically into the basket to keep...
by: Shannon Popkin, published originally by MOMSense Magazine My little guy, Cade, is quite a talker. He loves to communicate and does so quite well. He talks to people constantly, whether we’re in the library, the grocery store, or at a drive-through...
by: Michelle LovelessI took one look at my son and my heart was touched. His hair was brushed to the side.I don’t think anyone else in the whole world would have caught this little detail, but it meant a lot to me.My mom, known as ‘Grandma Bonnie’ at...