I spent this afternoon moving a desk and bookcase into our downstairs bedroom. It used to be my older son’s bedroom and have wanted to turn it into an office since he moved out almost two years ago. Before I could turn it into an office however, my youngest son staked a claim on […]
One of the silver linings of journaling my thoughts in this blog is that it makes me actively look for little moments of beauty, of joy, of delight, of thankfulness for those blessings in my life that in past easier years I might have overlooked. In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I found some colorful […]
This past week was an intense mix of emotions. I braced myself for the possibility of my daughter being incarcerated only to read in the online court minutes that the pretrial was delayed until early December.
I picture one or both lawyers on each side asking for more time to gather evidence with the judge […]
Sometimes I think an ostrich has the right idea. When life gets a bit scary, put your head in the sand. Don’t look, don’t think. Danger…what danger?
My daughter has her pretrial hearing this week for her 3 felony theft counts… one count for stealing a computer and 2 counts of identity […]
I missed posting a blog last weekend. Usually it is my “sort my feelings, clear my head” time and I look forward to those writing sessions as my own little oasis of peace, free from the distractions of life and work. Last weekend though, I chose to give up the writing time to clean […]
At the moment, I am feeling like the picture to the left with lightning crackling down to the ground from dark, rain filled clouds. I must be sending off electric charges of irritation as my husband took one look at my face a little while ago and gave me a hug. I’m […]
The picture above touches my heart. The mother is loving and protective, the baby contented and trusting. I held my daughter at this age with the same wonder and delight. I saw a bright future: a happy little girl, a teen, a college student, a young woman, a bride in […]
With five active kids spanning nine years, we kept plenty of Band-Aids on hand…big ones for knees, round ones for small scrapes and of course brightly colored Sesame Street and Winnie the Pooh strips in the early years. There is something satisfying as a mom to hug a sobbing child after a fall, clean […]
Every week I go babysit my daughter’s baby for half a day at the family home of the birth father so that he can go to class, study or just have some time off from being a single dad. The young man’s mother is normally the one who comes to relieve me of babysitting […]
Years ago, after my youngest son was born and while still in the hospital, I visited my friend in the same maternity ward who had delivered a baby girl the day after me. I was happy for her that the delivery was straightforward and the baby was as healthy as could be.
Several […]
