Keeping Watch

This afternoon my son asked me to look up some pictures of something he’d learned about in history. So, off to the computer I went. I sent him and  his sister from the room first to make sure there wasn’t anything inappropriate for little eyes. When I was satisfied, I called him back and we […]

Rethinking Romance

I love Valentine’s Day. For some reason it has become one of my favorite holidays. The last couple of years I’ve tried to make it more about the kids instead of us, because as my husband said Valentine’s Day wasn’t really as important to him as to me. Now, that may sound terrible, but I […]

We don’t do Ultimatums

Last year my husband and I were having some growing pains in our marriage, particularly in the area of communication. Problem was we couldn’t talk if no one went first. I wrote him a letter about some changes I hoped to see (please don’t jump to the worst possible scenario). There are some renovations and repairs in […]