While Megan is away, Vanessa from I Never Grew Up is sharing a post with us. I write to my children once a month, you could maybe call it journaling for them, but mostly I love writing to my kids about how much I love them. Some months it is about a fun vacation we…
Author Archives: Stephanie
Tankini Moms and Towel Moms
By Tina Swimming is a very important skill for kids to learn. I feel so strongly that my son should learn to swim that I started him in a Water Babies class at the local swimming school when he was 14 months old, which was in January. That’s how much I love my son. So…
Learning from Shenanigans
Kelly is on vacation this week. To preserve family goodwill, she’s not working but out enjoying the sunshine instead! Please welcome our guest poster today, Vanessa from I Never Grew Up. “Mama loo-oo-k I made a big mess,” my daughter informs me with a sly grin as I open her door to wake her from…
My vanity, my child
By Gretchen My five-year-old son has a very small cosmetic flaw. One of his upper center baby teeth is coffee brown. He’d prefer to call it chocolate or even dirt. When I consider the little sliver of trouble in his sweet mouth, I can’t help but think of a careless stain on the front of…
Slow Down
By Melodee Life is not a race. So, why are so many mothers I know in such a hurry to enroll their three and four-year old children in school? Why does a four-year old need to write his name? What is the big rush? For the typical pregnant woman, the starting flag begins waving the second…
More Time For Naps
By Stephanie My Christmas tree is still up. I do have a goal to take it down this week. Maybe even today. For real. There’s just been so many other things going on that have ranked higher on the priority list. Like napping. My boys’ school has a rule that when it’s your child’s birthday…
Once Upon A Time
By Stephanie I’ve asked Kim from Prairie Mama to guest post today. She has one of those blogs where I stepped into her words and then wanted to read everything she’s written. Enjoy. Once upon a time, there was a woman. She liked to knit. She liked to knit a lot. She had these two…
New Life
By Stephanie Today was Gretchen’s day to post, but she has a very good reason to take the day off- oh, say 6 lbs and some sweet little fingers and toes of a good reason- as she just gave birth to her new baby son Archie. It wasn’t without much excitement and prayers and fanfare!…
The Strawberry
By Tina Somewhere along the way, in the bumpy course of my life, my eyes had become crusted over with the cynical smog and gunk and goo of the world. Bad news for an artist. I had just stopped seeing the exquisite surprises that God puts in my path every day. And I didn’t even…
Pretty Good Year
By Stephanie In just a few hours this year comes to a close. It was a pretty good year for me. I was pregnant for most of it and then birthed my first daughter. I made friends and lost some friends. And truthfully I saw more heartache and pain in the lives of many than…