Category My Son
How Do You Spell Disappointment?
As some of you know, L. participated in both a regional and state spelling bee last year. We had a great time making some road trips last fall and watching him spell word after word. In the regional bee, he and the other finalist went back and forth, with L. finally missing a word. Since […]
“She’s Warming Up to Me…”
“She’s warming up to me,” said my husband, V., to me the other night, speaking of our nearly three-year-old daughter. Is this a strange thing for a father to say about his own little girl, for whose life he has been present since she entered the world? Strange, but I totally understood what he meant. Both […]
Back-Row Origami
Our son, “L.”, is very much like my husband and myself as school children: eager to do his best, even more eager to please his teachers, and almost always quietly obedient. We go out on the school playground every day that the weather permits after we pick him up, to burn off some energy and […]
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, […]
Hurricane Day
All my adult life, I’ve had what I call occasional “dizzy spells”. One moment, all will be fine, and the next moment, it’s like some giant hand took the ground below me and tilted it quickly one way and then the other, leaving me with a spinning, unsettled sensation in my head. Sometimes the feeling […]
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 […]
Another Thing I Like About Strep Throat
I try to be a grateful person, to see the good in less-than-ideal situations. Last week, I wrote about our suspicions that our son had strep throat. When he woke up the morning after I had written that, feeling worse, coughing and hurting more, the next logical thing to do was schedule an appointment with […]
What I Like About Strep Throat
You know your child gets strep throat a lot if he can diagnose it himself, at home, with 99% accuracy. I’m not a betting person, but I’d wager that he tests positive for it tomorrow when I take him to the pediatrician. I can’t remember the last time he was ill with something other […]
Plans
“‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.’” These words come from the Biblical prophet Jeremiah, and they were the words God gave to him to speak to the Israelites when they were in […]
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