Teaching our boys about Jesus and sharing our experience is the number one greatest privilege of mine and Dave’s lives. We have just read through the story of David… the murderer who was also “The Man After God’s Own Heart.” We’re learning about repentance… “Making a U-turn” from sin and what it means to reconcile… […]
After a hot session of two boys threatening to beat each other up and learning conflict resolution, I had two fuming boys sitting at the table: Me: “You two can sit here for a little bit and take a breather.” Sam: “I DON’T WANT TO TAKE A BREATHER!!!! I’M NOT GOING TO BREATHE!!!!!!” Me: “Excellent. […]
Here are the three main (predicted) highlights of our day today in the following order: 1) Going nuts when the garbage truck and recycle truck rumble down the road. 2) Going nuts when dad comes home from work. 3) Going nuts when it’s bedtime and we’re not supposed to be going nuts. Carry on, world. […]
Today’s lunch offering of choice was the local Chick-Fil-A. Drive-thu… preorder of course… points on the app + hangry boys. Baby girl hasn’t tasted the magic yet. Dave asked me what I wanted. “Oh, I’m good… I’ll just clean up whatever the boys don’t eat.” Moms… you feel me. We got home and let them […]
Best thing I’ve heard all night: “Mom! I flushed the toilet and it almost overflowed but at the last minute it all went down!!!! Glory be.
Going to say “Happy Father’s Day” to this extraordinary man early, because he will again be working on the actual Father’s Day and I might be up a million times the night before and calming a hundred thousand fits and breaking up two dozen fights. It is so real and raw up in here. But […]
My little 2 year-old this morning: “How sleep mama?” Me: “I slept…okay, but more importantly, I got up to another morning to see your happy face.” Every moment is a gift. Walk in love and go in peace.
Tonight we explored classical music. It started with Dave introducing Rachel to Clair de Lune. Sammy walked in the room and said, “What’s this?” I said, “It’s Clair de Lune, by the amazing Claude Debussy.” I raised my eyebrows. “One day, you’re going to play this and I will just sit in the other room […]
Yesterday, both older boys were instructed to pick up the massive tidal wave of legos covering their bedroom floor. I walk up to check on their progress. Me to Josh: “Hey Josh, I see you’re reading a book. Why are you reading a book and not picking up your legos?” Josh: “I’m reading to Sam […]
Tonight’s dinner convo: “Tornadoes,” “Maelstroms,” “water spouts” & “rare shark spieces.” 1) Thank goodness for YouTube. 2) So. Many. Questions. 3) It’s probably no coincidence that my daily headache starts around dinner time.