Several inches of snow made the park an unappealing choice for Katie’s day off from school on Friday, so instead I took the kids to McDonalds for an afternoon french fry snack and an hour of wild rumpus in the playland’s giant gerbil tunnels.
I wasn’t the only parent hoping to burn off some excess kid [...]
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“Mommy! Come quick!”
I bolted upright at my son’s cry and was two steps down the hall before I even realized I was awake. At least, I think I was awake. The jolting in my heart as a surge of adrenaline rocket-powered my body to the kids’ room conveyed a sort of nightmarish [...]
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In Idaho, there’s a fifty-fifty chance that your Easter Egg Hunt will find you digging colorful plastic eggs out of the snow. As you can see from this photo, the icy conditions also provide much-needed camouflage for any Easter Bunny hoping to avoid being pelted with buckshot by some overeager hunter with a hankering [...]
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Paul knew I’d had a busy day today, full of running errands and catching up from our long weekend, and since he was going to be out with the guys tonight, he suggested we stop for fast food on the way home to relieve me of the chore of cooking dinner. I was easily [...]
Filed under: Paul, blessings, love, marriage, troubles | Tagged: bank fees, finances, McDonald's, money troubles, overdraft, why I love my husband | 16 Comments »
This dire statistic led the news this week: according to a recent study, 1 in 4 teenage girls has a sexually transmitted disease. About twice that many are sexually active. Educators are aghast, while parents are shocked and dismayed, and why shouldn’t they be? After all, this is the enlightened age of [...]
Filed under: Christianity, family, kids, love, marriage | Tagged: abstinence, choice, contraception, human sexuality, marriage, safe sex, STD, teenagers | 21 Comments »
*I’m having a little trouble jumpstarting my Monday. I’m not even sure I’m completely awake, although a peremptory sniff of my armpits tells me that my body at least walked itself through my morning shower and deodorant ritual. The sky is gray. The snow is gray. The air even smells gray. [...]
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Well, Amber is a married woman now.
I know she’s 29 years old, but she’s still my baby sister, and seeing her in a wedding dress was every bit as surreal as the first time I witnessed my brother (the one who used to give me Indian rug burns and wrestle with me for control [...]
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