Yesterday we lost a dear old friend. I cannot even begin to adequately express the gaping hole her departure has left in our family. The whole thing has me tied up in knots. Her body was ravaged by a cruel disease (degenerative myelopathy) which made it challenging to walk or stand, she had lost tons […]
Loving Lucy
*This post is deeply personal and shares more than I ever thought I could. I consider myself a pretty private person but I wrote this for a contest a year ago because I had to get this out. Cathartic, you might say. The question posed was this: When did you first understand the meaning of love? Here’s […]
Wordless Wednesday
Laura, Pa and the Prairie
Sometimes when innocently flipping the TV remote, you can stumble on a classic show that really takes you back to your childhood. Enter tonight’s airing of Little House on the Prairie-LOVE IT! We are adding this one to the DVR. As soon as the theme music starts and the kids tumble down the hill, I’m […]
Let the Butterfly Fly
Boy, being a mom is one heckuva tricky job. One minute, you’re comforting an injured child who got an eye scratch when her brother accidentally kicked bark in her eye. You are their healer-their source of comfort-their center. The next, they are trying all the angles to convince you that we MUST adopt a cat […]