It isn’t fair to you to pretend that I’m not crazy. Yes, many of you think I’m talking about the dancing in thrift stores and jumping up and down during board games. No. I am not talking about this. I am talking about the debilitating disease of insanity that lurks around every dark corner of…
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I lie on the grass, stomach full and look at the wide expanse of white cloud-ocean that illuminates the backdrop. My daughter is in close-up, peach ripe smell drips from her face and down her arm in glittering trails of sunlight. She drops the pit to my hand and gives me a wary glare: do…
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I’m getting a little homesick for school. I know that sounds totally crazy, but it is true. My teacher friends are out there somewhere, making lesson plans and figuring out how to make their students do exactly what they want them to. Meanwhile, back in SAH mom land, I am trying to decide how to…
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Made you look. I always wanted to be a hot cheerleader. When I was 4, (this is an age we keep returning to, I know) I remember seeing all those cute little fluffy-headed cheerleaders with their fluffy-headed pom-poms and realizing that I really wanted to do that for a living. As in, “What do you…
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I don’t usually write on Sundays. It is my day off, you know? It’s the day that I set aside to worship God in the best way I know how: watching Disney movies and eating ice cream. Today is different, though. Some of you know this, but I recently had a birthday. Yes, now I…
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