Photo by Impressions Photography Those seven, they are all ours. And, much to their exasperation, they belong to each other. None of them remember what a small family feels like because the first …
There are so many things we want our kids to know before they leave our houses in a cloud of adulthood. Hundreds and thousands of things. A few years back I read a book entitled 8 Things No Kids Sh…
When our first little person was five months old, we packed up our earthly belongings and jumped ship for the Big Red country across the water. So began our seventeen years of international travel wi…
The ribbon of red dirt was littered with plastic bags and the gullies convinced us this should not be a road. The houses were shacks and the creeks were sewers. The children were as pl…
The day was classically sunny and warm. The grass in the yard was more coarse than the turf we were accustomed to but our bare feet had access to it and therefore it was prized. Thailand was always…
We have probably all done our share of people watching. If you have little kids, it is at the McDonald's playplace or the beach or the park, while you keep one eye trained on the chaos you claim as yo…
Can I have a snack? Can I smell your armpit? Is God in my tummy? Why do I ask a lot of questions? If you know any kids at all, you could probably add some interesting ones to the list. Kids are f…