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 I, like most parents, have been in conversations with other parents lamenting how fast their kids are growing. "I can't believe th...

When the Christmas decorations came down from the attic this year, there was a small artificial table top tree in one of the boxes. I immedi...

Just a little photo essay made up of scenes from this past week of the season of hopes dashed and fulfilled, for today's post: 1. Thursd...

On Monday, I got a very lovely and unexpected card. It has a picture of a little girl with a bathrobe on, messy hair, laptop under her arm a...

This week's title is a double entendre--it is the first Five on Friday list of the year, but the content is also "first five....

If you celebrate Christmas and are still looking for a something to put under the tree for Mom, I'd like to say, on her behalf, what the...

It's family tradition season, folks! It starts annually in October when the bin of Halloween decor comes out of the attic only to be swa...

As I snuggled in on the couch to watch my son's basketball game being live streamed, I couldn't help remembering how much my back wa...

Not sure where you're reading this from, but where I live we've had a bit of snow lately.   First there was a 2+ foot dump over a 48...

I hesitated writing a third Five on Friday list in a row about Martin Luther King Day, but it’s kind of a big deal around here. Seeing how i...

Last year started like any other for us like it always does, with me falling asleep long before the stroke of midnight fo...

It must be true that absence makes the heart grow fonder . . . because these things haven't happened in awhile and I had forgotten how m...

I’ve been noticing my kitchen could use a good scrub lately.   “Didn’t I just do a deep clean recently though? Oh, man, I guess that was way...

Long before the current virus scare, I've spent many a flu season  trying to keep my home disinfected and my children healthy. The minut...