Today, my newborn baby boy started high school. It's a little hard to imagine how he is getting from class to class, what with his b...

A few weeks ago, I went on a little trip across the pond. Or did I mention it? My trip? Yes? All right then. Shut up. While there (and pr...

Last week, I was on the phone with a teacher from Hannah's school. See, Hannah has recently started going one day a week to a creative l...

Today at church, I noticed Hannah staring at me out of the corner of my eye. At first I ignored it, as she is sometimes fond of countin...

The morning started smooth and easy, a familiarity to the long-forgotten routine of showers, lunches, and backpacks. It was maybe an except...

What do you do when it's 104 degrees outside WITHOUT the humidity heat index? When the pool feels like warm bath water and you've a...

Here's to: No more tornadoes sleeping in fun vacations lazy warm afternoons at the pool sunshine freckles ice cold diet cokes and the in...

Have you heard? The world is going to end tonight. The righteous will be taken up to heaven, while the rest of us will be left here to bur...

More often than not, I have my camera packed away and I miss the opportunity to capture forever things that totally make me laugh. Like this...

Dear Hannah, Today at exactly 9:10 p.m, you have been in my life for nine fantastic years. When I think about that number, it astounds me. ...

This past weekend, we decided to celebrate the start of spring break with a little stay-cation and booked a few nights in a hotel downtown. ...

As I whined about mentioned last week, the Husband was gone on a six-day ski bender. Two states, countless runs down the mountains, and a ...

Last week, I found baby girl furiously scribbling a note to one of her classmates. She was writing and re-writing, crumbling up little post...

Hannah came running in, her cheeks flushed and her face set. She sighed, an exasperated release of air coming from her tiny chest. I waited...

I am the kind of mom that says yes to yet another package of silly bands. But says no when they want to play in the muddy rain puddles. I a...

Ah, Cheeky. What do you do in your sleep to create such fabulous hair styles? The perfect combination of tangles, ratting, and volume -- e...

The other night, I was attempting to make dinner but something kept getting in my way. That something was Chase's head. Every time I wen...

The first day of school came and went. I had planned to stand on the driveway, camera in hand, and dutifully capture every detail of their ...

My kids go back to school tomorrow. All week I have watched them with melancholy in my heart, loathe to part with them. The past few days, ...

There is a new master in my life: Thanks to the Hannah, I have been made to be accountable for my sins: Apparently , girlfriend doesn't ...