What’s going on over there?

I was at at church on a Wednesday evening, sitting in my ladies’ Bible study group. On the other side of the wall, the kids were playing games. We could hear them laughing and and jumping, and occasionally yelling. We made a few little jokes about how it sounded like fun over there. When we

A Disappointing Letter

We are still receiving Christmas cards, although it is late January. Not that I’m complaining; I love Christmas cards! I also have a fun way of preserving cards every year. (Click here if you’re interested in that craft idea.) So, the more cards, the better, in general. This particular Christmas card was forwarded from our

A Post-Christmas Road Trip

This Christmas we enjoyed being closer to family, just as we did over Thanksgiving weekend.  I enjoyed having all of my kids together for the holiday. We had fun. Our two college-aged daughters came to stay for Christmas here in Georgia, and then we planned to all go to visit my parents and in-laws in

In Her Sibling’s Eyes

Boo, my fifteen-year-old daughter, told me about a boy at her school who keeps awkwardly showing up near her and telling her she looks beautiful. She finds this embarrassing, apparently. I was talking about this over the phone one day, because (a) it’s kind of funny and (b) I’m rather proud to have a daughter

Post-Halloween Fun

In the past, our family has had an after-Halloween tradition of smashing the pumpkin. I did write about this once before when we lived in Hawaii, if you’re interested; we’ve been doing this for a while. Here’s a picture from ten years ago, when we lived in Maryland: 2008 might have been the most fun

This is Halloween

This year for Halloween, we were happy to be able to trick or treat outdoors again, after moving to Georgia this summer. (For the past three years we’ve lived in North Pole, Alaska, in case you didn’t know. Our first year there we attempted outdoor trick-or-treating, braving the snowdrifts and making it around one block

Helping With Homework

Every day after school I have to force the twins to do their homework. It’s like a punishment. FOR ME. You’d think that we’d have this down by now, as the twins are in fifth grade, but we’ve been having quite a bit of trouble with the homework routine this year. For one thing, the

The Basement Screaming Incident

A Text From A Ten-Year-Old

The Mommy Medal– Birthday Edition

I have mentioned before that I think I deserve a mommy medal for some of the things I have done. But the twins’ birthday party has really turned Mommy Medaling into an Olympic event. Having a boy/girl twins who want to be able to have a sleepover party makes a huge logistical problem. This means