My five-year-old daughter begins kindergarten this month. This means my cautious, anxiety-prone, oldest child starts a new adventure in a new school building with new friends and a new teacher. For the first time, she’ll be away from her little sister and away from me for six hours a day, five days a week. She…
Last year an image of a teenage boy standing at a flagpole alone made its way around the globe, the story garnering the attention of our nation. A high school junior had chosen to pray in front of his school all alone, in plain view of onlookers and passersby. One of those onlookers posted about…
The stakes were high, and I was a novice. Choosing my firstborn’s school put my beloved son at the mercy of my meager mom skills, and I was desperate to get this right. I couldn’t sleep. Fear had me wrapped in knots. I was afraid of events that hadn’t happened, yet they were haunting me…
Our recent move meant our sons, who are in fourth and sixth grade, would have to switch schools at the beginning of the fourth quarter, so before we committed, we carefully weighed the pros and cons. We prayed daily for guidance and wisdom, and ultimately a clear path lay before us. This was the second…
“There really are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.” ~Anne Lamott In the book Year of Yes, author Shonda Rhimes argues we should stop referring to parenthood as a “job.” She says we minimize the importance of parenthood when we compare it to a job you can…
I successfully raised two lovely little girls to adulthood, and I have a confession to make: I truly hated playing Barbies. Nor did I care for teddy bear tea parties, building forts, or arts and crafts projects of any kind. Although I encouraged my children to nurture their imaginations through creative storytelling, playing make-believe mommy…