Number One Parenting Tip: Train Your Young Child to Ask Permission
by This sleeping beauty is my youngest daughter. She just finished singing “The B-I-B-L-E” to me, wreathed in dimpled smiles. She adores helping around the house, …
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Don’t Slack Off With Younger Children
While eating out at the local diner yesterday, my four year old’s silliness fast became annoying. One minute she’d be poking non-stop tickles at her …
The Magic of Eating Outside
Up over the ridges ran the blue of wild lilac like spreading smoke; manzanita and chaparral put on their creamy blooms; even the redwoods spread …
Our Fourth of July
Fourth of July to me, has historically (boy that makes me sound old!) meant getting together with large groups of people, being surrounded by live …
Party Time: It’s Real Life
Warning! At the end of this post is a pic of me with no make-up. It’s only fair to give you advance notice…just so you …
Big Families: The Outsider’s Scoop
As promised, my gleanings from three days spent with a super-mom of six! Some may consider a family with six children smallish, especially when contrasted …
Back From Vacation
So my hubby springs his vacation plans on me during the week of the stomach-flu from you-know-where (or was it salmonella from tomatoes? we’ll never …
Make a May Day Basket
Sugar cookies and chocolate chip cookies are packed up, ready to go, and I just got all my baking sheets washed and cooling racks in …
Give a Little Extra Love
Today I’m posting over at Weekend Kindness, Give a Little Extra Love. Check out my list of easy ways to bless your spouse, and while …