I had my kids posing for a picture downtown Chicago, when a kind stranger stopped and offered to let me get in the picture. As I handed him my iPhone, he said, “Oh… you’ll have to show me how.” So I quickly pointed out the ‘button’...
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,...
I noticed something about the couple sitting down the row from us in church last week. He kept whispering little things in her ear and she kept smiling. Their interaction was subtle, not distracting, but very sweet. Though she didn’t laugh out loud, it was clear that...
I can’t remember who told me this story, but it makes me laugh every time I think of it. (It was probably after I told about the craft my son brought home from church one day.)It had been a rough morning in Sunday School. The 2’s and 3’s class was a...
I have absolutely no idea how my high school friends and I figured it out. Maybe we were driving along one day and it randomly happened. Or maybe we were trying out an urban legend. Whether it was on purpose or not, somehow we discovered that we could make the garage...
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...
Our dog, Diggory, does not like thunder storms. He cowers and hides and trembles, and looks up at me with these big, worried eyes.This morning, just before my daughter’s alarm went off, she heard a strange sound in the bathroom. Things were falling and banging...
My daughter and her friend—both freshmen in high school–did this mayonnaise prank. They emptied a mayo jar, washed it out, and filled it with a mixture of vanilla pudding and cool whip. They created just the right combination so that it looked like...
Here’s a conversation I had one summer morning, with my nine-year-old son: Me: Honey, did you open the side door in the garage this morning? Him: Yeah, I went outside this morning while you guys were still sleeping. Me: What??! What were you doing outside? Him:...
To help my kids tell me about their day at school, I made up “Funny, Mad/Sad, New & Review’. They have to tell me something from each category.So, for instance, here are the things I learned about today:Funny: In Cole’s math class, a kid walked...