Posted in parenting on Aug 20th, 2008
Michael Jordan has never been my favorite–not because he’s not a great basketball player, but because he made buying tennis shoes a battle in our house. Granted I’m sure that his shoes are great, but I never felt that you had to spend over $100 to get good tennis shoes. If paying more meant that my [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 15th, 2008
Her voice was good enough, but her face was not—are you kidding me? Shame on China for being so caught up in their image, that they negated the self esteem of a 7 year old girl!
The US girls gymnastic team won the silver medal and the headlines of the paper could only talk about the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 12th, 2008
It has been so much fun watching Michael Phelps’ mom as he continues to make Olympic history. You can tell that she is incredibly proud of him – as we all would be. But I don’t know if she is any more proud than I have been when my boys accomplished one of their goals–we [...]
Posted in Africa on Aug 8th, 2008
While in Zambia we were able to tour the Tree of Life Children’s Village. As stated in their publication, “The strategic mission of the Tree of Life Children’s Village is to proactively and permanently address the cyclical and multi-faceted problems of depression, poverty, and AIDS that plaque the lives of the children of Zambia by [...]
It feels good to be back home. The time in Africa was great, but the trip home was a beating—21 hours in planes and 16-17 hours in airports—DFW never looked so good!
The Royal Livingstone was awesome! It was a great adventure before we started camp, but it was made especially awesome because of the people [...]