Category My Daughter
A Spoonful of Something…
Anyone who has a toddler or who has been around a toddler knows that eating habits are sporadic and odd at best. As parents, we try to offer a variety of healthy choices, and agree to almost any combination of them the toddler chooses, as long as those choices meet the nutritional needs. For example, […]
Love One Another
My son was working on a take-home sheet from his Sunday School class yesterday morning after breakfast. There were a few things to read, a few things to think about, and a few questions to answer. One of the passages was from 1 John in the Bible, where there is much about loving one another: […]
Just One More Snooze
People who use alarms to wake up either like the “snooze” feature or they don’t. My husband loves pressing snooze on his phone in the morning. I hear that chirpy marimba beat three or four times before he gets up. I don’t mind, and in fact, I’m often already upstairs with my early-rising children. Monitors do […]
Two Minutes
My husband and I do not go out together while our kids are awake often at all. I’m supposing and hoping that will change as they get older and aren’t so attached, but for now things go well and most easily when we don’t miss bedtime or meals. One of those rare times came up […]
Laughing at the Days to Come
My daughter loves going to our weekly Mommy-and-Me gymnastics class. It is the only place where I see her let a non-family member help her, even touch her, while I just watch for much of it. She climbs eagerly onto the mat to reach the lower of the uneven bars, where her teacher helps her do […]
The Slowest 800
In Olympic spirit, I am posting this piece that I wrote several months ago. I hope to move all of my “notes” on Facebook to my blog soon–this is the first one. My relationship with running has given me much to write about since I began plodding around neighborhood roads with my dad when […]
When You Fall in a Race…
I ran the mile and two-mile events for my indoor track team in high school. At the start, all the competitors stood shoulder to shoulder, leaning forward, waiting for the signal to go forward. The beginnings of these races, especially the mile, tended to be chaotic. Elbows bumped and pace had to quickly adjust to […]
Mother’s Day
Let me preface this by saying that I could never be thankful enough for the privilege of being a mother. I also am blessed beyond words to have a beautiful, smart, creative, strong, loving mother who is still a huge presence in my adult life. With those sincere words having been said, I will let […]
You Can Lead a Toddler to the Potty…
Parents, especially mommies, seem to love comparing notes on potty training of their children. Or do we dread it? Whichever is the truth, we still inevitably talk about it and end up feeling either extremely triumphant, totally defeated, or unfazed and willing to let nature take its course. How I feel when I discuss this hot […]
Running the Race 
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