Children

I had big plans for this summer. I was going to buff up, clean up, get up, pick up, and finish up the scrapbooking. How did I do? Well ……

My friend Jaqueline survived her daughter’s first day of kindergarten … barely. She’d lived through several crying spells over the last few days and major tears the night before the first day…

Back to school is an interesting time for mothers. Some celebrate, such as my friend whose kids have a very … explosive sibling relationship. Going back to school may have saved at…

Have you ever seen one of those movies where the good guys are running from the bad guys through the woods and the good guys burst through the woods, teeter…

As we got ready to go swimming yesterday, my husband’s eyes grew large when our oldest came downstairs in a two piece swimsuit. It’s more of a tankini than bikini,…

My 2-year-old daughter has been living in an elastic-waist pink skirt with balloons of lace at the sides, trimmed with silver beads and pink feathers. Her “princess skirt” is now…

I will not ever forget the time my precious, beautiful daughter came home from seventh grade as sad as can be. It took me hours to get it out of…

I heard it from the other room. “Stop it NOW!” my son yelled at his brother. Lovely. Lately we’ve been having a few too many of these 5-year-old, attitude-laden verbal…

Yesterday found me placing rags and spray bottles of homemade cleansers in my older boys’ hands: A very limited, age-appropriate version of Bathroom Cleaning 101. Get this: They loved it. Spraying stuff down, conquering…

If your preschool or early elementary school kid’s got as much energy as mine this summer, you might wonder with me, Just how did anyone get you to sit in a desk?…