When Lindsay was about two, we stopped at Cracker Barrel for dinner. We had been driving quite a while, and both Ken and I were cranky. After we were seated, we began to argue with each other about who-knows-what. We were in the middle of a move to a new city, so it...
A repost from 2009. Cole thinks this story is very funny now. :)My family was all within earshot when Ken said, “Shannon, we’ve got to be consistent with disciplining Cade for talking back. Should he sit in the corner for five minutes?” After we...
The Lord is my Shepherd. I shall not want.He makes me lie down in green pastures,he leads me beside still waters,he restores my soul.Psalm 23:1-3″Mommy, where are my socks? I have none in my drawer.””Mom, Cade needs you. He just spilled all the dog...
I think parents of today’s teens are in a unique situation.I’m not saying I’ve discovered something ‘new under the sun’. Our kids struggle with the same sins of pride, fear, lust, and jealousy that the kids 200 years ago did. But there...
I love the story my friend Lora recently posted on facebook. She said that it was past her seven-year-old’s bedtime, but rather than drifting off to sleep, she heard him up, throwing an absolute fit.When she ran in to find the cause for his hysterics, she...
When I put Cade’s jeans into the washer, I noticed something. There was a unique c-shaped hole in the knee. It caught my eye because it was the same c-shaped hole that I had noticed yesterday.Could I have just washed these jeans yesterday? I called him in, to...