Tag: #raisingchildren

Toy Story Mania

admin October 15, 2019 No Comments

I almost beat my husband at Toy Story Mania yesterday. ALMOST. Toy Story Mania is a fun arcade-style shooting game. I always lose to my husband. ALWAYS. Yesterday when we played, I started out very strong. Surprisingly, I was winning after the first three rounds. I felt confident. No, he was not “letting me win” […]

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Laura

admin October 4, 2019 No Comments

Thank you, Laura. Are you like Laura? Yesterday when I went to pick up my child at school, she was not at her usual spot. I scanned my eyes over the crowd of children. I could not see my child. In my mind, I said, “Where is she?” Soon, I started saying it aloud. Laura […]

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A Little Bit of Pixie Dust

admin September 12, 2019 No Comments

  In our home, we frequently discuss the values we instill our girls. We have a select few charities that we donate to when we can, but we wanted to do more. We have been incredibly blessed, and we want to leave a legacy for our girls of giving back. That is when we had […]

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Vulture

admin September 6, 2019 No Comments

As I was driving down the street recently, I noticed a swarm of vultures eating and picking away at whatever roadkill happened to meet its fate. At that moment, I thought to myself, we need fewer vultures. I do not mean the animal. The animal is part of the “circle of life” as they say. […]

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Triggered

admin August 7, 2019 2 Comments

My daughter starts Kindergarten this month, and I am worried about her first year at a big kid school.  I have the usual mom concerns. Those include her making friends, lunchtime, and the dreaded car line. I am also terrified she will not make it home on any given day. Will she be shot at […]

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Eyes Wide Open

admin July 1, 2019 No Comments

“What happened to the trees, Mama?” she asked me with a sad tone in her voice.  I replied, “I am not sure.” I drove by the trees daily. I honestly never looked at the trees. I knew they were there. I knew they were “pretty” to look at, and yet, I never genuinely looked at […]

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