Category: kids

How to stand in line

The check-out line at Old Navy gives me hives. Especially when the clock is ticking away seconds until my feet need to be planted at the bus stop. I just need one pair of pants; a pair that …

What is it you want to grow this summer?

Click HERE and I’ll read the whole thing to you in just a few minutes! He wanted to grow a cabbage. The biggest one ever, he declared as he carried this tiny plant home from the bus stop. …

The One Thing that Could Cure Our May Madness

Psst… it’s May. I know. I know, we’ve all been whispering it to each other in hopes that our calendars haven’t caught on yet. May. This month of madness that ends our school year and propels us into …

To the lady who gave me peanut butter and grace at Walmart

Peanut butter. I just need peanut butter. And a few more hours in the day, but Walmart is all out of those. So I settle for peanut butter. Feeling overwhelmed by the never-ending race against the ticking clock, …

What’s on your list?

This time of year everyone is making lists … and checking them twice. Grocery lists, guests lists, to-do lists, Christmas gift lists and of course the “what I am thankful for” lists. My little one brings home a …

You are what you eat

“Can I eat this mom? It doesn’t say if it is gluten-free? Do you think it is ok?” My little guy stares at this package of snacks and tries to determine if he is going to trust it. …

Walking lessons

Watch where you are going! Quit stepping on your brother’s heels! No, you can’t walk into the road yet, there’s a car! Hey! Hey! Heads up! Eyes in front! These words came out of my mouth a million times …

What is it you need to remember?

“Hey, Mom! You know it’s been almost 22 years since you went to school here, right?!” my oldest bellows his discovery across the breadth of the rambling porch at my college sorority house. There is a young sister …

The one way to avoid the hustle of a new season

An orange one subject wide-ruled spiral notebook. It said it right there in the middle of the 4th-grade school supply list. Like it was no big deal. Right between pencils, pens, and erasers. Like it would be just …

Do you know how to turn this thing around?

  They waited all week for that kayak. The one we had promised to rent while on vacation. The one that, yes, they would be allowed to take out by themselves. Their dad said that, not me. I …