My children tend to be pretty sloppy eaters, despite much coaching at each meal. “Mary, stop dissecting your sandwich and just eat it!” “Colette, if you pick up your spaghetti with your hands one more time, you will be all done eating!” Sometimes only seconds have passed since saying grace, and someone has peanut butter …
Monthly Archives: August 2011
A Test of Love?
I have a two year old. This means I frequently find my patience, endurance, and sanity being tested. “It’s all about being more stubborn than she is,” I often find myself saying to the sympathetic listener, or to no one at all, but simply as a means of committing myself to the idea. Mary has …
Mountain Moved
Sometimes I feel like there is some sort of plug between my brain and my hands that stops up the flow of words swimming in my brain that are trying to get out on paper. My blog entry from last week, “Moving Mountains,” was actually a river of emotion that had been dammed for several …