Where Passion & Purpose Collide
We’ve read lots of excellent parenting books over the years, but nothing has shifted our paradigms quite like Danny Silk’s Loving Our Kids On Purpose. It rocked our parenting world. It’s like Shepherding A Child’s Heart meets Parenting with Love and Logic, edited by Erma Bombeck. It’s brilliant and simple and biblical and fun. And it just.makes.sense, which…when you’re a… Read More
Yelp! How is it September already…and how did my babies suddenly turn into these fully grown miniature human beings with larger than life personalities with massive feet? This summer…if it can even be called that (for I can barely count the number of hot days on one hand) flew by like greased lightening. The leaves are citrus-kissed and the days… Read More
I interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you… simple snapshots of the best darn summer entertainment a dollar bill can buy: Hip hip hooray for $1 bubble wands and a windy afternoon.
Our kids love water. They have always loved water. Especially when it resides in LARGE quantities in places OTHER than bathtubs and swimming pools. and when it involves shedding all clothes and decency and making as much mess as possible without having to clean an ounce of it back up. If it get gross and slimy and contains frogs…all the… Read More
It’s official. Spring will be coming to Michigan this side of sometime. And there is much rejoicing in our household over this rock solid fact. Kids here and there have been flinging off their winter boots in favor of too-tiny flip flips, ripping out bathing suits and entering ice-crusted puddles with nothing more than pajama shorts and Texas-sized grins. {Don’t… Read More
Here’s a sneak peek from last week’s Daddy Daughter Dance. Be still my heart. {Happy Valentine’s Day}
Yo! Life ain’t ho-hum When you spend your days as “mum” Just wipe that tiny bum While Sally sucks her thumb Hollah! Okay, so maybe dropping the beat isn’t exactly in my talent department. Or remotely in the same zip code. I am an excellent bum wiper, though. They like the way I work it…Mom Diggety… I got to… Read More
Remember the cute Merry & Bright goodies from last Christmas? Well, we have another fun classmate gift idea and printable for you! I had seen these as valentine gifts on Pinterest a while ago, made with a little heart crayon, and then ran into adorable silicon snowflake molds at Meijer a few weeks ago. Considering there are always an overabundance… Read More
We rarely use our front door. In fact, there is usually something large and obnoxious right in front of the door in the ‘formal’ entrance cove which makes it impossible to open. Like my keyboard…the acoustics in that little nook are spectacular! The most used entrances to our house are through our back deck door and through the garage –… Read More
We went to our first Fall picnic with the other families from my hubby’s post last week. But due to inevitable marital communication discrepancies, I found out just days before that this was in fact a Halloween party. With children donning costumes. You’ve never seen a woman hit the shelves of craft stores with such tenacity and pterodactyl-like precision…leaves, check…black… Read More
Looking through photos from little Bean’s recital in June, I realized how much like a weed she has grown. She’s looking less and less like a wee lass and more and more like a little lady every day. She’s blossoming and maturing, her cheeks and belly are losing their plumpness, and her little hands are losing their dimples. Which makes… Read More
To the mom who is weary and overwhelmed, painfully aware of her short fuse and tired of the sound of her own voice… I get it. I’ve become really good at saying, “I’m sorry” since becoming a mom. Learn to embrace grace. This is one of the most important things you can model for your children. To the mom… Read More
