General Blog Posts
I am the person hurt most when I do not say no. Do you know the feeling when someone asks you to do something and your mind starts racing because you know your schedule is already full, but you don’t want to hurt the person who seems so needy? The pressure is on because you…
I have a problem about sticking to schedules. It is not that I don’t stick to schedules. It is that I don’t like my schedules messed up. Maybe I am too much of a stickler to sticking to the schedule! Changed schedules throw me into an unbalanced, loss of control feeling. (Go ahead and laugh.…
I warm up to technology at a slow pace, or maybe I am just cautious. I love my computers and my Fitbit. That’s my technology. Enter new technology, and I am nervous. Do you relate? Now, other family members love their Kindle, Smartphones, tablets, and various games, but I just like the good old predictable…
Haste makes waste. How that little saying came true recently was a hard pill to swallow. I got something on my shorts shortly after starting the last load of laundry. I wanted to get those shorts into the laundry pronto so I raced through changing and plunged my shorts deep into the sudsy washer machine.…
One day in June I found myself unexpectedly alone in the house. I went about my work, but it was SO quiet. We have five kids and four pets. We are always busy, running here or there, tackling this or that. Somebody is on the phone. Somebody is listening to music or to Adventures in…
Ah, chocolate. It is so delicious. Just thinking about it makes you want some right now, doesn’t it? My youngest was reading C.S. Lewis’ The Horse and His Boy when truffles came up. I admitted to making truffles once when she was less than a month old. For some reason, I was upset so while…
Whenever I tackle a task, it seems I go overboard. This was no exception. I thought that picking strawberries would be a fun activity for me and my daughters. Turns out only one thought it would be fun. Our neighbor joined me and Emily, and we set out anticipating all the fine dishes we could…
Interceding often feels like carrying the burdens of others. May was a rollercoaster month. On the evening of May 11, my mother-in-law’s birthday, my sister-in-law called to tell me that her daughter, who was then 10 weeks pregnant, was hit by a semi on her way home from work and that the jaws of life…
While my friends and children are busy learning foreign languages, such as French, Spanish, Russian, and German, I’m learning one myself. I’m learning slang from the 1800s. It’s interesting how language and communication change over the centuries. Let’s see if you can decipher the following sentences? A body druther not argie with sich widders afore…
Seven years ago in February, we brought our chocolate lab, Cocoa, home when she was six weeks old. She was so tiny, she could run under the bar stools that line our island counter in the kitchen. Now, according to the vet, she has lost her girlish figure, not that she cares. She seems just…