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...

McKay is home sick today with "The Flu." You know the one - it causes you deep stomach pain, nausea, and anxiety from nine o'c...

Over the weekend, the Husband and I went to dinner and a movie . Because we are both trying to stay away from the siren song that is heroin...

Sleeping late, cuddling under warm blankets. Fire roaring, mugs of hot cocoa in hand. Empty schedule. Novels waiting to be read. Movies wai...

When Hannah was about two, she got into a little bit of trouble. I found her one afternoon, standing at the open door of the fridge, eating...

While browsing one of my favorite furniture stores this weekend, I stumbled upon something so lovely and adorable that I instantly tried to...

Totally random, but there are some questions that have been rattling around this empty head of mine all week, and I am looking to the wise i...

We left the restaurant laughing, and decided to take a stroll together. He reached for my hand, and I smiled shyly. My black heels clicked...

The call comes in early this morning, the one we were waiting for. I listen to the recording with a smile on my face, and hear two sets of ...

Last weekend, we had gloriously warm temperatures. Every day for a few days in a row, the mercury rose higher and higher, until it was rest...

Oh, internet. Words cannot begin to express my gratitude at your heartfelt empathy, sympathy, and love on my behalf. You are just plain go...

Last July, I started having some pain. Like any rational, normal mother of three, I ignored it. Six weeks came and went, and it became obvio...

Hi, all. Christmas and New Years were pretty freaking fantastic around here. So great, in fact, that most days I [purposely] forgot to char...

The cards have been mailed, and plenty received. If someone's been missed, we would surely be grieved. The stockings are hung by the ch...

This is my Grandpa Johnson. Isn't he handsome? He was a big man, about six-foot-two or six-foot-three, with broad shoulders and (when I...

How many of those words came out yelling? Answer? A lot. Today was a faow day [pronounced faux, as in fake snow day]. You know, the kind w...

Yesterday afternoon I was folding the laundry. Movement out in the backyard caught my eye, and I looked up in horror at the sight. My secon...

The weekend of Thanksgiving has become the much-anticipated time when we put up The Tree. It is so sacred and important in my children'...