This past weekend I gathered my crew together for a 15 minute mini-session of family photos. Now, I am not one to have high expectations for sessions like these… I have three young and wild little boys after all. I don’t expect everyone to smile brightly at the camera or behave perfectly. I believe some […]
This past January, I was at a conference in Miami, Fl. We took a bus one evening to dinner. I do NOT do buses well. And this particular “bus” was not actually a “bus” by my definition but instead one of those super large passenger vans. So, I sat up next to the driver and […]
I was a guilt-stricken child. Whenever I did something wrong, it weighed on me so much so that I’d often confess before anyone even knew I did something wrong. But I had one “wild” year. I remember it well. I was in first grade. Yep, that’s right – first grade. The first offense was on […]
As the fear of being late to a Friday night baseball game loomed in front of us, I frantically handed pieces of my son’s uniform to him trying desperately to get him to focus on changing… and quickly. “But mom, I have to tell you something!” I sighed, “What! What do you have to tell […]
I passed a colleague the other day who was reviewing a retreat talk on the Prodigal Son. “Is it wrong,” I asked him, “that I just have grown a little weary of this Gospel passage? Over the past few years, I’ve heard dozens of retreat talks and homilies and read articles about this passage.” I […]
“Mom, we need a baby chicken in our lives.” These were the words coming from a very earnest six year old buckling up in the back seat of my car a few days ago. “I do not know if we NEED a baby chicken in our lives, buddy” I said trying to venture carefully into […]
As my son finished his math homework the other night, I heard him exclaim “I. AM. AMAZING!” punctuating every word. He came into the kitchen a few minutes later to kiss me goodnight, and I playfully said to him “So, you are amazing, huh buddy?” He replied with wonder, “Yes! How’d you know?” How does […]
This past week, we drove for eleven straight hours to get to Colorado for a brief vacation. When vacations start, especially with three littles, I am usually not very relaxed. Bags have to be packed, laundry washed, kids and favorite blankets accounted for… and then there is the long, grueling drive. But somewhere along the […]
When I was a kid, I was a major fan of Saved by the Bell. CONFESSION: I might have even watched The College Years. There was one scene, among many, that I remember clearly from that show. Apparently others do as well because it is one of the first gifs that comes up when you […]
As a couple of lone parents settled in to watch their children’s swim lesson through the glass and perhaps catch up on social media, I sat down nearby with one of my four-year-old twins to wait for one brother’s lesson to end and his to begin. “Mommy, what’s that? There’s a white pole near the […]
