As I mentioned in the post before, Liam has a little stomach bug right now, so he stayed home from school to rest. Liam: (entering...

Being at least two feet smaller than most people around you must leave you with a sense of being unseen, and therefore unheard.  That’s my only...

Yesterday, we (the entire family) planted our first vegetable garden. I had no idea the amount of toil this would require, managing the kids and exactly how...

March — what happened to March? It has been a blur of activity: Burke’s birthday, Beckett’s birth/day, traveling to DFW, traveling to OKC, traveling back...

  I remember as a child and teenager hearing, “why are you so eager to grow up? What’s the rush?” Even as a little person,...

Meet Sweetie-McGoody… …and now, the cougar. Blythe adds so much dimension and personality to our little family. Even at almost 17 months, she demands an audience. The Sweety-McGoody-Blythe greets...

Mark and I like to keep things “spicy” by writing little notes to one another on our bathroom mirror (we’ll have to reconsider once Liam...

We’re late to be somewhere, anywhere. You approach me and ask, “Mom, will you put on my shoes?” I bend down, wrestling to force your...

When Mark and I went to London for our honeymoon, we found this quaint bookshop full of all sorts of literary treasure, old and new.  In it...

“SILENCES are holes in the sound wall/SOUNDS are bubbles on the surface of silence. Sound, like silence, is both opening and filling/concave and convex/life and...