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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 […]
The Beach
A few minutes ago, I admitted to the Facebook world that today marked my first or second trip to the beach in this year. We live in south Florida, and only about thirty minutes from many wonderful beaches. Oddly enough, I went today with just my daughter–how often does that happen? My son was about two […]
Panic Clean
I am a “panic cleaner”. Sure, I keep the kitchen neat, fix the bed in the morning, do laundry, and pass the Swiffer and vacuum as needed. Unfortunately, I seem to require company to really get things spiffy. I am also a pile maker: little piles of clean clothes stacked on the stairs to go up […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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