I was sitting in my car at Walgreens in front of a Red Box waiting for my sons to decide on a movie. While I was waiting, the owner of a car parked next to me ran to her car from the store, jumped behind the wheel, smiled at me, sat there for a a…
I set my son free today. I wasn’t prepared for what happened before I set him free, but there I was with it up close and personal. My 7 YO son had developed stereotypes despite my good intentions of shielding him from them. What I apparently failed to realize was I was shielding him from…
Jacob had a dream of a pie. Seriously. He really did. So we made it. Ok. So, here’s my plan. I want my boys to cook…correction…to LOVE cooking and cook the family meals by the time they’re 11. As Jacob is 10.5 now, I don’t think I’m on schedule, but at least they enjoy cooking!…
I don’t know if other parents do this, but I limit my boys’ “electronic time” (what it’s called in our house). I limit it because I think children should have time to be alone with their thoughts and to explore the limitless possibilities of their imagination. So, my boys are required to have “imagination time.”…
Aren’t you glad God is so patient? I am. And you know why? Because he sees before the now, beyond the now, and in spite of the now. He sees us through the lens of eternity. He knows who came before us to bring us about, and he knows who will come after us…
I remember when I was a sophomore in high school there was a young lady that did not like me. I had never done anything to her personally, but she rolled her eyes and snarled whenever I walked by. I finally discovered from a friend that she didn’t like me because she felt I “thought…