Posted in parenting on Oct 30th, 2008
I love Halloween!!!!
I love all the children in their costumes and the candy, of course, is awesome! I really don’t like all the scary stuff, like bloody masks and gravestones, I’m more into princesses, pirates and pumpkins!
Every year there is some parent or “expert” who talks about the ghoulishness and scary history of the holiday. [...]
Posted in parenting on Oct 29th, 2008
Over the last several days I have had the opportunity to talk to several people who are dealing with family tragedy—either sick parents, cancerous spouses, or ill children. Oddly none of them were concerned with how much the care cost, or what they had to do in order to help their family – money and time [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 20th, 2008
I just finished the book ADHD & me, what i learned from lighting fires at the dinner table. It is written by Blake Taylor, a guy now in college, who writes about his experiences dealing with adhd. It is a great book! I wish this book had been available back when I was trying to navigate the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 13th, 2008
I was just wondering why it is that when your children are young and need a lot of attention –we don’t have much time—but when they are older and you have more time—they don’t need much attention!
We have a new little foster girl and she is adorable. She was requiring a lot of my attention [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 6th, 2008
I haven’t blogged lately because I have discovered Facebook! Now I know why all the kids are always on Facebook—it’s really fascinating! To be honest Wray set me up a Facebook account because a lot of my Zambia friends posted pictures and stuff. Well now I’ve discovered that I can talk to my friends all [...]