Friday, on the way to school, my oldest son said “Mom, I just love sleeping so much. I wish I could be back in my room sleeping right now.” In my head, I agreed emphatically with him. After a long week, more sleep sounded wonderful. He went on to say “I just love being in […]
Earlier this week, my son and I had a small disagreement on our walk to school. I think he and I have very similar stubborn attitudes which does not make for a good combination early in the morning especially when I started the day already feeling behind. The short walk to drop him off took […]
*This whole post can be found at Ignatian Spirituality’s DotMagis Blog. In our urban backyard, we have a chicken coop constructed just right to fit our five, almost full-grown chickens. My animal-loving family promises me eggs are just around the corner. Having a chicken coop in the backyard, however, means other animals are sometimes attracted […]
A few days ago, my son and I were talking about Pokémon cards – he is obsessed. I have been using earning cards as a reward and so this morning I told him that there was a new way he could earn Pokémon cards – he had to get a certain amount of stickers in […]
This post can be found in full at IgnatianSpirituality.Com A year ago, we had the unexpected gift of taking time off to go as a family to a resort hotel a little north of Houston. It was late July, and I expected it to be hot and miserable. After all, late July through September often […]
*This article can be found in full at Busted Halo. I am grateful for the opportunity to share my love of Ignatian Spirituality with this audience. I always thought I knew exactly where my sons would go to school. There’s an excellent Catholic school right next to where I work. So, from the time I […]
This past weekend, my boys decided to explore the depths of the playroom closet. The closet itself has a bunch of random stuff in it – everything from toys the boys are not old enough for to spare gift wrapping supplies. It probably needs a Marie Kondo once over – but out of sight, out […]
We had our bi-annual “wrestle the three little ones to the dentist” earlier this week. We have been every six months since each kid turned two. Each visit, they get a clean bill of health and the little odd chipped part that the identical twins have on (get this) the same front tooth is noted […]
I’m pretty sure my sons love mud. I mean LOVE mud. Really anything dirty and equally as distinctive as the brown slime after a rainstorm. Case in point, they all had the stomach bug this weekend, and I won’t even begin to disgust you by relaying the gleeful conversations they had about that! At one […]
This past Sunday, I was sitting inside looking out our porch windows at my boys chasing each other with water guns and splashing in a shallow pool. You know the kind – the ~$7 hard sided blue or green pools from Walmart? Even as they grow, they still love these things. It was a nice, […]
