Halloween is coming up and excitement is in the air at my house.  Costumes have been ordered/shopped for/made.  (Not made by me, but the 12-year-old is very creative.) The fake spider webs are adorning the bushes outside, and the kids are dreaming about their soon-to-be cache of candy.  Oh, the candy…the candy is their favorite part!  […]

Fall was in the air yesterday with our first swing at 80 degree daytime temperatures.  It was glorious.  The weather won’t hold here yet, but we are about to embark on another milestone: Fall Break.  For those of you with traditional school schedules, Fall Break is a random week off of school in September.  My […]

Have you ever lost something important?  Your car keys? Passport? Wallet?  Sanity? It’s a terrible feeling, or at least it is for me. I lost my son in London.  I hesitate to admit that.  I am typically a very organized and responsible person.  I don’t like losing things, and I really hate it when I […]

We all like pretty things. Don’t believe me? Check an Instagram feed.  We surround ourselves with carefully curated beauty. It’s not a bad thing to enjoy beauty. I actually believe it is built into us to search for it.  We notice sunsets and mountaintops.  We look to the ocean and the night sky and we feel amazed […]

Words matter.  We all know this.  I suspect we all repeat the lesson over and over.  We know we should control our words, so why do they run away with us so often?  We teach our children to use their words not their hands.  But I’m wondering if I have imparted any wisdom to my […]

Have you ever had the feeling that you can’t win?  That no good deed goes unpunished?  That’s how this week has rolled at my house.  My daughter sent the opening salvo.  I was working at the computer the other day when she came into the house.  My back was to her.  My older daughter exclaimed, […]