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When You Walk Through the Wilderness 27 Aug 2013 | 05:56 am
When I was in high school, I laid flat on my back in a body cast. For many, many months. So during all four years of high school, when I wasn't in surgery, staying in the hospital for physical thera...
On Miscarriage: How To Love and Encourage Her 22 Aug 2013 | 03:18 am
I miscarried two summers ago. I was very newly pregnant. And, I knew something wasn't right early on, and it was a few weeks of tests and good results and hope and then bad results and sadness and th...
My Little Foodie Girl 15 Aug 2013 | 08:18 pm
My little Holland. This girl has come into my world and turned it upside down with hair bows and pink skinny jeans and squeaky little girly sounds of which I've never heard come from the mouths of my...
What I Want My Children To Know 15 Aug 2013 | 12:54 am
I was watching my littles play together today. I have so many hopes and dreams for them. I want them to know love and I want them to succeed. I want them to be kind and gracious and I want them to ...
Baby Hippos and The BEST Chicken Chili 13 Aug 2013 | 10:00 pm
This morning was a doozy. Some creature-child with stealth-like skill maneuvered his way into our bed at 5am - and as usual, drops his stealthy mojo and turns hippo-in-the-mud once he arrives in our ...
On Mothering Many Children 12 Aug 2013 | 04:35 pm
*I have been truly overwhelmed by your response to my last post, "To Moms of One or Two Children". I read every one of your comments - here and on the Short Stop Facebook Page and I loved watching y'...
To Moms of One or Two Children 6 Aug 2013 | 01:02 am
How do you do it? I've never counted, but I imagine the number of times I've been asked that question by Moms with one or two children is somewhere in the hundreds. I have five children, and judging ...
A Most Majestic Title 24 Jul 2013 | 08:30 am
I've been thinking about Kate Middleton today. I mean, how could I not be, right? She's on the cover of every news outlet and the world over is celebrating the birth of her baby - a future king. I w...
That Day Mom Wasn't Home 22 Jul 2013 | 07:24 am
I went to visit one of my best friends last week. She lives in Chicago, but was here in North Carolina visiting her family just a couple of hours away, so Holly and I drove over to visit her. Jason a...
Those Me-Tainted Glasses 18 Jul 2013 | 08:09 pm
So with the school projects. Let me just say that I am not afraid to use the "Oh, I have five children at home and so we are just gonna do the very best we can, mkay?" card at the mere sighting of a ...
