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To My Kids: Sometimes I Cry

Sometimes, at the end of a particularly trying day with you guys, I cry. I’m overwhelmed with all the feelings, with exhaustion, with knowing I’ll get up and do it all again tomorrow. So sometimes, there’s nothing to do but cry.

I cry selfishly for the fact that the day took so many hours to be over.

I cry because I don’t know if the choices I made were the right ones.

I cry because I don’t know if you felt loved enough, cherished enough, hugged and kissed enough.

I cry from sheer exhaustion, as I literally fall...

Things I Love About Newborns

After three years of watching my first and then second newborn grow into rough-and-tumble toddler and preschooler who feed themselves, make big messes, know more...

Discipline: An Experience of the Father’s Heart

True story – I only recall my parents needing to spank me once as a child.  And then there was one time in second...

Why I Love a Snow Day

I missed the weather forecast last week. Went to bed all normal like – woke up with snow and no school. The littles at...

Little Nos Make Way For the Big Yes

Saying YES to marriage always requires one to say several NOs. In order to marry my husband, I said “no” to every other man...

Is there an essential oil for that?

At 5:15am, I received the dreaded phone call: Another snow day. My kids have been out of school for the last five Mondays. And...

A Stolen Watch and a Teachable Time

I stole a watch the other day.  My husband and I took the kids to a children’s apparel store in the mall to try...

Just Two Things

Amidst the chaos of our too-late, after-midnight bedtime routine and in an effort to finalize potty-training, my wife and I get our middle child,...

5:00am Love

It is currently 5:15 AM on my husband’s day off (aka – a “sleeping in” day).  This is typically the day we let our...

A Deal With Dad

Each night at our house we have this ritual. Every night, my wife puts my daughter to bed, and Adam and I have what...
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