Category My Son
Contentment
“Peaceful satisfaction”. That is the definition in a student dictionary of the word “contentment”. Contentment has come up in front of me three different times today. I figured that warranted digging a bit deeper and giving it some earnest thought. The first mention of contentment came from the daily devotional on my iPhone’s Bible app […]
But I Thought I Was A Good Reader…
There are a lot of special activities that are unique to the end of a school year. As our son has finished up second grade, there have been awards ceremonies, a piano concert, a party, desk cleaning, and of course, early dismissal days. Every week, the teachers send out study guides in an e-mail to […]
I Saw A Smile…Tell Everyone!
A few days ago, I wrote about my son’s emotional response to the news that a good friend of his is moving soon. If what we saw that night was a mature, sincere sadness, then what we saw this evening was one of the happiest moments of his young life: he rode a bike on […]
I Saw Tears…But Don’t Tell Anyone!
We moved to a new house in a new city almost two years ago, when our son was five and our daughter still an infant. After five years in the same house, we had many dear friends from our neighborhood, church, and playgroups. Our dear boy had made lots of buddies in each of these […]
Quilling
Our son is about to finish up his second grade year in school. In these last few months, to get the students’ feet wet with larger things to come, the teachers have given three history projects. He has had to make his first poster (a calendar of patriotic holidays), write his first mini-report (at least […]
Don’t Count the Seconds
We gave our dear son a new stopwatch for his birthday recently. He happily put it on this morning, after I’d set the date and time, reminding him that he could wear it to school as long as it wouldn’t be a distraction. Part of the reason we got him a watch is that he […]
The Hunting of the Dragon
Last week, we took Luke up to the Tampa area for a regional fine arts competition. He participated last year as well, in the “serious interpretation” category. He received first place honors for his recitation of the Gettysburg Address. This year, he was asked to participate in the category of Poetry. He chose a serious, […]
Running the Race 
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