She’s only moving out for the summer, but still.This weekend, we’ll drop our daughter off at a Christian camp, where she will work for the rest of the summer.Now, please don’t picture me kicking and screaming, as we pull into the camp. Having her...
When Lindsay was about two, she said, “Mamaw, I want to see your sad face.”Mamaw (my mom) gave her a quick frown. But she said, “Nooo, Mamaw! I want to see your sad face, like when I have to go away.”So Mamaw gave her a deeply sorrowful look,...
I love……to see my kids red-faced, sweaty, and smiling, rather than pale and grumpy…it when they are fixated on the goalie box, rather than the box that the couch faces…to see them fighting together with a team rather than fighting each other...
At parent teacher conferences, Cade’s teacher showed us a picture he had drawn:She told us that she had said, “Oh, Cade! You did such a nice job on this. I can see all of the colors of the sunset, here. And you’re waving, right?”But Cade said,...
My friend, Missy, remembers the day that she and her brother were fighting over who was to sit in the front seat of the car. Their mom impatiently said, “Whoever is coming, get in!” So they both jumped in the front together. (This was back in the day of no seat-belt...
“Mom, can I take a bath in your bathroom?” my son asked, when he was about seven. “There’s no hot water left in my bathroom.” I tried to explain that all of our hot water comes from the same place, but he insisted that my bathroom’s...