Random thought #1: First of all, I wanted to say thank you to all those who responded so kindly to my last post. I expect I'll go through some rough spots in the coming weeks and months, and I've come to realize that one of my support groups is made up of you, my blog...

Nope, I will not promise you a post every day (especially since I already missed yesterday). Normally I'd be happy to - in fact, I often post every day. But this month, I need the freedom to sulk and pout, and just be uncreative and occasionally uncommunicative. Yes,...

Doesn't quite have the same ring to it as The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, but everyone had their own ideas about costumes this year, so it was a fairly motley crew of trick-or-treaters at our house tonight.I love Halloween, even on a cold snow-covered night...

There’s a little piece of you in me.There’s a little piece of my third grade teacher who gave me a sparkly pink change purse when I won the spelling bee.There’s a little piece of my best childhood friend who lived a mile down the road, just close enough to get to by...

Nine year old Julie has three close friends at school - R, T, and C. All three of them were at her camping birthday party in June. All three of them were planning to join Julie at tonight's costume party at our church. All week at school, they'd talked about the...

For lack of anything better to write, here’s a list of the little treasures on my desk (and bookshelf and filing cabinet) and the little stories that go with them:- A pottery figurine of a child lying on the floor leaning on an open book and gazing at a globe. This...

I've seen a lot and a lot I've seenHope I never stop dreaming if you know what I meanSometimes it all ends in disarraySometimes I feel myself slipping awayMy soul's asleep, so wake me upMy body's fading, so wake me upMy soul's asleep, come on and wake me upBaby its...

Yesterday, I lost it over a tube of chapstick. Totally lost it. The kind of “mamma’s gone around the bend” losing it that sends the children scurrying into safe places far from my wrath.Julie and Maddie were fighting over chapstick. “I want it.” “But it’s MINE.” “But...