I have been thinking lately about how much of a gift it is, to have friends who just GET IT. When you call and need to vent, they don't get frustrated, they listen, and you feel heard. You know the one! We all need one, and for years, I thought a friend like this was [...]
One day you wake up and those chunky, dimpled, soft knees have turned into little boy knees. You can see their strong bones instead of dimples. They can run fast instead of of crawling. They knee you in the side instead of being tucked up beside you. During those days when you feel like you [...]
One of my earliest memories as a new mother of three, was when Coen, my youngest was about two weeks old and I decided to break all three kids out of the house for a stroll to the park. I took them by myself, pushed Coen in his stroller and the older two rode their [...]
I have realized something this week that I never fully realized before. ALL THREE OF MY CHILDREN ARE STRONG WILLED. What. Is. Happening. They each have different degrees of strong willed sprits, but this past week I learned that they were so much stronger than I ever thought. It all started with the hunt for [...]
At our house, we LOVE blackberries. Over the past five years Derick has slowly planted and cultivated about forty plants, so that when blackberry season arrives---we have berries a plenty. This year as I was picking berries I started to notice from a few feet away that there would be these HUGE berries hiding directly [...]
