It was June. Our family of seven crowded around the candles… and blew. Spencer and Gordon were one year old! Beyond the regular birthday…

Check this out. A music video “starring” my cousins (The Keslers). My girls have already watched it three times.



We’re talking serious fun at the…

I think we’ve done it. Sami and Ali are pretty much potty-trained. Last big step? Wearing underwear to bed. Samantha is begging for this…

It was the end of our first week in the new house. Doug was at Home Depot (second trip of the day). I was…

A few weeks ago, while sorting through treasures at his mother’s house, my Dad found this. The Brownies – Their Book by Palmer Cox…

The girls took great pride in their new responsibility as “blog hat” aficionados. Unfortunately we had a few tears. I asked Sami to choose…

My girls will be drawing one of your names out of our “blog hat” on Sunday – so you have until then to enter…

I didn’t recognize her name. I never heard her sing. But I saw the disbelief on my Dad’s face – the concern widening in…

Have you ever felt homeless? Been in between homes? Moved in with your parents…or in-laws? Lived far away from the place you call home?…

Thirty Stumbling Mothers Share Glimpses of Grace

That is the subtitle to Kathryn Soper’s new anthology. Her first, The Mother in Me (published last year)…