parenting
Laughing out Loud
 I am often asked what does it take to be me and in all honesty, I wonder that myself. I am pretty sure that my ability to laugh out loud at myself and the various situations that I find myself in is definitely a plus. I come up with tons of ideas on a [...]
My mind was where?
 When I look at my life, I think about how blessed I’ve been. It started out with a good foundation-loving, extended family that protected me, gave me guidance, but most of all, encouraged me as myself. Well, for the most part. I emerged out of a controlling, loving environment a whole person. Despite the [...]
Life on the weekends
Wow! I can’t remember a time in recent years that I’ve been so scattered and it wasn’t related to the children, well directly related to the children. My weeks are getting full with coaching classes, speaking engagements, ministry obligations…I am in the process of hiring someone to do some administrative work, but WOW! is all [...]
Just one of those…
I don’t feel like my parents adequately prepared me for this thing we called life. As much as I feel like I wasn’t sheltered, I didn’t know how they did it. What was going through their minds when their parents died and they were under attack from the extended family? What problem solving skills were [...]
A nine year adventure
I’ve been a parent for a little over 12 years now, but I don’t think the adventure kicked in until I was the parent of a male child. Growing up in a house of only girls, I didn’t think that having a boy around would make that much of a difference. I was kind of [...]
