"Hey! How are you?" a friend asked as she approached me after church during coffee hour while I juggled my purse and my toddler on my left hip.
Looking down at my daughter, I answered, "Oh, she's good. She wants...
My husband and I are definitely a team in all aspects of our marriage, whether completing household chores, arranging travel plans, and especially when it comes to being parents. There are parenting responsibilities I’m good at, and there are...
Dear First Time Momma,
You're just days away from giving birth to your first child. I'm sure you've been told before that it will be a wonderful, magical experience - and that's true. Nothing in the world compares to the...
When our son was just an infant, we started having dinner with a group of friends on Friday evenings. We’d generally go to a local family-friendly restaurant and spend about an hour and a half decompressing from the week...
When I found out we were pregnant, it was completely surreal and a little hard to believe. I felt the same, I looked the same, and knowing a human was growing inside of me seemed more sci-fi than reality....
Life is lived publicly these days. News and gossip used to be something that took a little while to make its way around town, but now, thanks to social media, the word spreads almost instantly. This can be good...
Dear Preschool, Montessori School, Elementary, Junior High, High School, Classical Model, University Model, Homeschool, and ALL THE SCHOOLS IN ALL THE PLACES...
Can we be friends again? Like the best of friends? You know the ones, the ones that talk...
Little milestones remind me of our old church. Right now, it's Vacation Bible School. Summer brings back memories of countless hours spent painting decorations with other VBS volunteers. I think of the kids I met each summer and the...
Two years ago, I had the incredible opportunity to attend the BlogHer Conference in San Jose, California. I was really excited to go to that conference to meet some of my favorite bloggers in person, attend writing workshops, and...
To My Children's Future Kindergarten Teacher,
In less than a month, my children will enter your classroom door and hopefully, your heart. I've thought about this day since they were born, but obviously as the countdown draws closer, it fills...
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Cinco de Mayo in Houston: Let’s Fiesta!
Growing up in Texas, I am ashamed to say that I most often associated the holiday of Cinco de Mayo with eating Tex Mex,...
