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You Know What I’d Like to Leap Over? Year 3.
My kids are out of their minds about this leap year thing. A day that only comes around once a year? Yeah. What would you do if you had a birthday today? Uncle Jarrod almost did. He would only be a kid still? No, the years still pass. Just because his birthday rolled...
Hey World? I Haven’t Lost My Value Just Because I Have Kids.
When I was pregnant with my first child, I worked full-time as the editor of a newspaper produced by The United Methodist Church. Every week I’d write all the articles (because the staff was…nonexistent) and I’d take all the pictures and then I’d edit what few...
What Marriage Looks Like With Children
Valentine’s Day for a married couple with young kids is just like an ordinary day. Maybe you don’t think Valentine’s Day is that important anyway, so this doesn’t really bother you all that much. But me, well, I’ll take any holiday I can get to call a sitter and spend...
The Most Random Places I’ve Found Kids Library Books
This week kicks off Library Lovers' Month, and if you know me and my family at all, you know that one thing we love to do is read together. We read before nap time, when one of the 3-year-old twins will pick out two picture books and I’ll read a few chapters from the...
A Dad Knows What He’s Doing. We Should Just Let Him Do It.
I recently made a few waves with an essay I’d written in response to a friend venting to me about how her girlfriends kept saying that their husbands were going to babysit their kids so they could have a girls’ night out. Apparently, it struck a deep nerve. I feel...
I Have a Dream, Too: Get a Decent Nights’ Sleep
Today is a day we celebrate a great man of history who envisioned a lofty dream for America, one of peace and love and equality, spread to every corner of the world. While I love the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. I have to admit that I’d forgotten it was a holiday...
So Much For a Yell-Free Year and Other Notes on Resolution Failures
So much for a yell-free year. I screwed that up at about 10 a.m. New Year’s Day. Husband and I keep it no secret that we own a megaphone and use it frequently, because the noise six boys can make on a daily basis is like a thousand frightened elephants crashing...