16 May In Their Own Time
When the girls were much younger, we often spent afternoons at the park. During the fall, the trees would begin losing their leaves. If there was a bit of wind,...
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09 May The Art Table
Growing up, my parents had a table in their house known as the art table. It stood adjacent to the kitchen table and was covered with years of crayon markings...
01 May Plan “Bee”
At first glance, the few bees buzzing around home plate appeared to be no big deal. Our family, seated along the third base line at the Diamondbacks’ home game, watched as...
25 Apr End of Story.
As Emma and I walked out of the grocery store, she paused and pointed toward her blue and pink mismatched socks. “That girl standing by the flowers looked at my socks,”...
18 Apr Winging It: Needing Help in Being Helpful
From the backseat, Ella exclaimed, “There’s a goose in this parking lot!” Sure enough, a lone goose sat in the middle of a parking space, a few spots away from our car. Questions flooded...
11 Apr Light and Dark
I shared two blog ideas with the girls that I was considering writing about and asked their opinion of which one I should use. “Why not both?” they suggested. “Why not,” I...