Sometimes, we worry about creating the perfect day and the perfect memory. We plan elaborate parties, vacations, and sleepovers. We spend too much money and create too much stress in the pursuit of perfection. We buy toys and schedule outings and play dates. But really, all our kids need is a pile of sticks and …
Today, we crossed over. My son finished kindergarten today in a ceremony his school calls kindergarten crossover. As I watched him walk across a metaphorical bridge between kindergarten and first grade with tears in my eyes, I couldn’t help but to think of the past crossovers in our lives–his and mine, forever bound now in …
Will you stand with me, right where you are? Will you stand and see the blessings in the everyday? Here, take my hand? All too often, we look ahead or behind at life–thinking of what could be or at what was. But, we need only to open our eyes to the blessings we have now. …
I lost my daughter this afternoon. It was less than three minutes before I found her, but it was long enough for panic to set in. I found this donkey as I looked for her, breathing in her smell on the stuffed animal she loves. My husband had gone to the basement to flip the …