Archive for May 2012 | Monthly archive page
There is a little tree on the side of our yard that I love. Its branches are high enough to walk under, but low enough to reach up and touch (or lift a child to touch). It stands about the size of our one-story home, so it fits well in our yard. Its leaves are [...]
To My Daughter Dear daughter in the future, You may be a mom someday. (No pressure on this. That may not be God’s plan for you. I am very glad that you have examples in the strong, nurturing, loving people around you who are not parents.) But I am a mom, and you may be [...]
Today’s run was hard. First, I psyched myself out. The training for today called for running two shorter intervals and two intervals that were twice as long as I’d run previously (three minutes – not very long at all, unless you happen to be a non-runner starting a running program). Also, on the advice of [...]
CRACK! My daughter stared, crestfallen, at her broken teacup. Her friend was visiting, and she’d asked me to let them play with her porcelain tea set, so I took down from the high shelf in her room. They had played wonderfully together until, in a moment of impulsivity, a tiny hand banged it against the [...]
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