Teaching Our White Kids About Racism
The racial injustices that have hit our nation in wave upon wave feel weighty. We cringe at the latest videos of police brutality and vigilantes murdering a black man. We shed tears, we say prayers, a…
Tag: Parenting
In Over Your Head? A Literal Story
Have you ever been in over your head? Or thought you were? Because I am going to show you how those are two different things. I've got a lot of kids and they all still live at my house. Therefore…
Why We Adopt
Photo by Impressions Photography My kitchen was extra full and messy for the best of reasons: friends were having dinner with us. There is nothing like an honest friend and this one looked at me a…
Three Strategies for Fighting Siblings
SUMMER! So many feelings right there. Many good feelings; many deep sighs from this mom. If your kids are anything like mine, the endless summer hours mean extra nit-picking and arguing. If you…
Things I Stink At and Why You Might Care
I have disappointed myself with my mothering too many times to count. I stink at a lot of things, these being the first on my mind: 1. I have a hard time finishing. I will organize my kids cloth…
Pros and Cons of the Big Family (According to the Parents)
Photo by Impressions Photography Married young and naive, my husband and I decided to go big or go home. After all, we loved Yours, Mine and Ours and chaos sounded like a great idea. We eventually t…
Pros and Cons of the Big Family (According to the Kids)
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 …
Three Things I Want My Kids to Know by Age Three
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…
To Travel or Not to Travel: Five Reasons to take Kids to the Developing World
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…
Moms, This is How God Feels About You
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…