It’s a terrible cycle. I wake up to use the restroom – but then, I’m INCREDIBLY THIRSTY, so I drink a ton of water . . .… Read more “WATER!”

I grew up going to a small baptist summer camp – the kind at which your cabins don’t have bathrooms and you sing silly songs around the… Read more “Little Cabin In the Woods . . .”

I mean, I understand why Ryder asks us every month or so. Sometimes, he asks differently, “WHEN are we moving?” In Ryder’s 6.5 years, we have lived… Read more ““Are we moving?””

“No, that won’t be necessary.” “No, really – it’s fine. It’s fine.” “You don’t have to do that.” ––––––––––––––––––––––– Have you ever said these things after someone… Read more “Unnecessary”

I want to be made of the stuff clouds are made of. I was talking to a friend interested in photography. She asked me, “What is your… Read more “The stuff clouds are made of”

When I was a kid, maybe 7 or 8, my Dad did something that has impacted the way I view parenting more than anything else. It was… Read more “Sundays, cheese pizza, and Chuck E. Cheese.”

I was 17. I was 17 and almost irrevocably broken. Everything about who I thought I was had vanished that year, and everything that had taken up… Read more “The Place.”

This morning, I’m sitting on the balcony of my room at our community’s summer camp – reading my favorite morning devotion. Today, the topic is the story of… Read more “2 BIG mistakes we make in our pain . . .”

My daughter is 4. And she is ginger – in spirit and in carrot-orange hair. And she is generally ridiculous. What more could a mom ask for?… Read more “I don’t have to, right?”

Guys, the sprinklers just turned on at my house. We bought this house in December and, with it, a noticeably archaic sprinkler system installed in 1982. The… Read more “Guys, the sprinklers “