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Category: parenting

  • Sons & Daughters

    Sons & Daughters

    Full of expectation and hopeLeaving their parents’ home To venture out into the worldAloneTogether  We fling them out to  Learn and grow and loveNever expecting theOne to devour The Other Dropping spent rinds on the floorWiping their facesTheir laughing faces Their crying faces Their disgraced faces Sons and daughters Our hopes and dreamsbright futures now spentIn courts and cells  Come…

  • Beam Me Up

    Beam Me Up

    They say age is just a number, but I have been “geriatric” according to science since I had my first kid at 36. (Here’s the thing. I am going to talk about body stuff and if that is icky for you, get out now.) Yesterday, I finally went the doctor for a referral that’s sitting…

  • Exodus 15: Radio Edit

    Exodus 15: Radio Edit

    After God saved them, the Israelites sing a song about it. It is called the Song of Moses. It praises God for, “the horse and rider thrown into the sea.” I grew up in church singing the lyrics, in English, to a very catchy tune. Years later, I still remember all of the words. Music…

  • Gift Shelf Hack

    Gift Shelf Hack

    About a decade ago, Tim and I both bought the same present for the same person. Instead of returning one, Tim suggested that we save the extra in case we need another present someday. He stuck it in the laundry room and we forgot about it until about a month later. We were headed out…

  • Back to School Daze

    Back to School Daze

    Tim and I attended my oldest kid’s back to school night for high school yesterday. She will be an incoming freshman, so it’s all new to her. We saw the building a little bit during enrollment in the spring, but this was different because she was given her schedule and encouraged to walk the halls,…

  • Perennials 

    Perennials 

    I didn’t grow up with sisters, but I did have girl cousins. One lived in the same town when we were very young and it bonded us early on. Then our parents fell out with each other and we didn’t see each other much over the time of our middle and teen years.  We sort…

  • Today’s Hunger Games

    Netflix is showing all the Hunger Games movies in anticipation of the second prequel come out in theaters. I first read the Suzanne Collins’s series as a young adult, so of course, I imagined myself as one of the main characters, i.e. Katniss. Now, as a mom folding laundry, I am rewatching them from the…

  • Dental PSA

    Dental PSA

    Today was rough, but didn’t start out that way. How it started was I was going to take my kids to the dentist, then back to school and then go to lunch with a friend. We have a lovely children’s dentist. The office ladies always schedule both the children at the same time so when…

  • Genesis 5: Generations

    This chapter repeats the part about God creating man, the word adam meaning of earth, “Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created.” Genesis 5:2  Then it says Adam lived another 800 years after Seth was born and had more daughters and sons. After Seth…

  • Genesis 4: Three Brothers

    Adam and Eve have a son and Eve names the boy Cain meaning “gotten a man with the Lord’s help.” She sees this child as a gift from God, as many parents do. They have a second son, Abel, meaning breath.  Abel keeps sheep and Cain works the ground. After a while, Cain brings an…