My son’s gifts are quantifiable.  I can tick them off on my fingers.  I often speak of them to others, as in, today my son mastered this...

Instead, I was standing, hands on my hips telling a six year old girl that in the future she should probably not climb onto a chair then...

My newest mom-title is Shield.  I remember as a child hearing my parents whisper things, knowing there were always discussions that did...

Right now, my husband is on his way to a cookie exchange.  He took our four year old daughter with him.  As I am not feeling well and our...

After three years of sleeping in the same room, tonight my children will sleep apart for the first time.  For a while now they’ve each...

Around our house the phone is for quick texts sent to remind that bread and peanut butter are low, that work is running late, that the...

Yesterday while shopping, my daughter saw an awful princess chair.  It was plastic and gaudy and ugly.  To her it was a dream.  She had...

My Mother tells a story of when she and my Dad were first married.  While looking for a job, he was browsing through the want ads and...

But try putting six girls and one boy into a house together and ignoring gender.  All of a sudden doors are closed so princess dresses...

We bought our 1996 Jeep Cherokee from my parents soon after college graduation.  It was more a favor on my parents part than because they...

And then today, as I stood blow drying my hair, innocently unaware that my daughter had popped into my bathroom, I felt a tap on my leg....

Our last Christmas card is a series of photos of our family in various states of disarray.  In front of the camera, as hard as I tried to...

We keep our windows open at night, trying to get the bit of crisp air that comes through the mountains.  In years past it’s been enough,...

I wander around from room to room, carrying one under my arm, as if I will have time to read it while I vacuum, while I pick up clothes,...

I don’t tag to annoy or even intentionally include other people in pictures. It’s usually because the people happen to be in a photo I...