I spent the majority of my childhood worried about being perfect, and that followed me into adulthood. Get good grades. Make good choices. Now, don’t put drama where there isn’t any. Perfection wasn’t anything put on me by another person, it was something I’d created …
I sliced my thumb yesterday as I cut onions to make seasoned tomato sauce. The cut was deep, starting at my thumbnail and ending in my thumbprint. There was a lot of profanity and a decent amount blood for a stupid sliced thumb but in …
My husband is tall so I always knew our two sons would be tall. They both broke the six foot mark quite awhile ago, which makes me the shortest person in the house, by far. Yesterday I got to hang with my two tall …
My husband comes home from work in the morning and sometimes mentions something that’s happening in the news. This morning’s update was ABC and XYZ and other things of “importance”. I assured him nothing in his update was going to change the fact that today …
Back in the day, I was part of a local chapter of a much larger parenting group called MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers). We would get together monthly for support, friendship, a meal, and a project. And let me tell you what, that group was instrumental …
I didn’t watch The Thing last night. I didn’t even know The Thing was happening until I saw a few memes about it on MeWe. People were creating a drinking game for the The Thing and then joking that everyone would be dead from alcohol …
When we were on vacation at the cabin recently, there was no planning out the days. I’m not one of those here is the itinerary for our trip kind of people. No, the next thing on our “what should we do” list was just the …
We live on a dead end dirt road in the middle of farm country. I see maybe three cars a day—the people that live to the east of us have to pass our house to get to the main road. And although farm families are …
Fall is my favorite time of year. A couple days ago I was having a stressful day. I know the cure for all things stressful is time in nature so I grabbed a blanket, a notebook, and a hard cider I found in the garage …
Friends, we need to have a talk. You matter at home. You are not replaceable at home. Read that again. You are, however, replaceable as an employee. Or on the church council. Or in your 4H group. Or on the board of directors. Please don’t …