Posted on May 31, 2013
Emily’s kids were three and five years old. She had spent the last few years busy, busy, busy: pregnancies, child births, diapers, sleepless nights, temper tantrums, managing her household, dinner times, and kids’ activities. Her five-year-old had started kindergarten last September and her three-year-old had just entered preschool. For Mother’s Day, her husband gifted her a gym membership, a place that she loved to visit before she had her kids. Emily dropped off her kids at school and with a big…
Posted on May 10, 2013
Moms pour their lives into their children in every possible way. This video takes a humorous look at what those sacrifices might look like from a child’s perspective. Happy Mother’s Day to all the Moms out there! In Joy 🙂
Posted on May 3, 2013
A quarter of a century ago, on Mother’s Day 1988, I brought home my first bundle of joy: the ultimate Mother’s Day gift, my Nitasha, or Tash, as we lovingly call her. On the date, every month, for twelve months, we celebrated her birthday! Then her first, second, third, all the way to today! 25 ! WOW! It seemed like it flew by. Gretchen Ruben from The Happiness Project says, “The days are long and the years, short.” I couldn’t agree…
Posted on April 19, 2013
Monday was about people running for the love of running. Instead, it turned into people running for their lives. And I can’t stop running either: running thoughts through my head about such unnecessary violence and what it means for our kids’ future; running out of reasons and excuses about why and how this continues to happen; running into puddles of emotion about the safety of our society. So then I ran with my thoughts to the Internet and found this:…
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