When babies are little, veteran parents feel compelled to say to the new parents “the days are long, but the years are short.” They advise you to savor every moment while your kids are little. As a new parent, I nodded and agreed and felt like there was no truer...
The boys were already downstairs making noise before I even washed the pillow creases off my face. Noise that just so happened to be music to my ears… Floating up from the kitchen was the melodious notes of the dishwasher being emptied and the dishes being put away by...
They were late. Again. My sisters were angry. I was annoyed. We really shouldn’t have been surprised that my parents didn’t even leave yet for the 35 minute drive when they should have been just pulling into the driveway. It didn’t matter that they were the guests of...
Geez, I hope that was never me. There was a dad “playing soccer” with his small child. I use the term “playing” loosely because he was really looking at his phone while he absently kicked the soccer ball back to his son. He didn’t take his eyes off the screen for a...
Juggling is not easy. Once you get the hang of it, you’re juggling bowling pins easily from hand to hand and you think, “Hey I could even add a couple more things to this mix! I got this!” But it turns out that the ‘things’ that got added were a chainsaw and a...