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This is the most inspiring book I have ever read for kids. Not only does “The Boy Who Changed the World” encourage a child to find his gifts and use them, but it talks about simple serving concepts like feeding the hungry and helping others. There is also a gorgeous illustration of a barn burning [...]
I sent my oldest son, Toby, to Kindergarten this morning. The drive to the school took five minutes. Five short minutes to surrender my child to the large and wicked world. I started crying before we even made it through the double doors. It might have been the functionality of his school: the student monitors [...]
Unleashing God’s Smallest Warriors This article originally published in the Feb.-Mar. 2010 issue of Deeper. For more articles on faith and family or to subscribe via e-mail to the Mom’s Moments and Deeper Newsletters, go here. My son, Toby, turned five on January 12th. Our family laughed over pizza at his favorite restaurant just as the whole [...]
My favorite part of this new blog design is the tag line: “Find a destination, run fast.” The only problem is me not having a destination. I spend a lot of time writing about my boys. This blog may become the longest book ever written, and if the climax is Toby and Charlie’s passage into adulthood I’m gonna [...]
A friend sent me a blog post by a dad whose young son just died of a rare medical condition. I read the whole thing, because it was a beautiful muse for those of us seduced by grief. Grief is my gateway drug, beckoning with a dismal finger until the sadness builds into raging anxiety. [...]
Asking Toby what he wants to be for Halloween is the last thing I should do the week before Halloween. Yet there I was yesterday morning, blurting the question very open-endedly as if the world were his costume oyster. Costumes stump me every year. Maybe because I wait until the last minute, or maybe because Toby loves anything unorthodox [...]
Sometimes I feel stuck in some sort of Copperfield-ian sphere where nothing is really what it seems. My friend just had a baby and of course I can barely talk about him without lactating into a puddle of nostalgia. Toby and Charlie were babies like last week, right? That’s how it feels anyway, which leaves me scratching my [...]
Preschool starts back next week (Glory!). I have a bone to pick with preschool. If preschool were nicer, it wouldn’t have abandoned me all summer in the raging, never-ending heat. Where were you preschool while I tried to keep the boys alive under the Elmo sprinkler? Where were you while they ate their ice pops in the bathtub because [...]
I am going crazy. I used to only feel this way at the end of the day, mostly when I was out of Chai. Now I am ferociously neurotic and weepy from the moment Toby pokes me awake in the morning, to the moment he pokes me awake the next morning. Just the fact that [...]
All I said to Greg was “Who died?” As in, conversationally. As in, our good friends were called away to a funeral and I want to know how somber I should feel. Not as in, let’s unravel the very long rope of mortality and pluck at each mysterious strand, right here at this very moment, [...]
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