What can make my children, especially the girls, suddenly more then eager to walk the dog? A cat, but of course.
Riddick’s Blood Pressure
They insist that contact between dog and owner is healthy for both. Now I love my fox terrier but I feel like we are both just too up tight to really be lowering one another’s blood pressure.
Napping in the Park
If I could bottle such days and replay them when ever and where ever I please I would bottle last Saturday. Pyjama day till noon, an enthusiastic trip to the library (proof I have a house full of lit lovers), toboggan rides in a warm sun on a slick hill and then the icing on the cake… a nap in the park!
Rewards
Everyone likes to be rewarded. My youngest and I found these delicate desserts after a morning of much running around. They appeared to be the perfect reward for the two of us, after all we had both been on our best behaviour this grocery day.
Walk With Me
There is nothing like depression to make you feel alone. Alone is a terrible feeling… it is painful… and ultimately a terrible lie. Continue reading →
Swashbuckler
I would like to introduce you to three book series that I am enjoying with my kids in mind. All are for the older child, as they have intense lessons and dangerous adventure.
Person – Ality (When is it really me?)
PERSONALITY – The combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual’s distinctive character.
We all have trouble seeing the faults in our own personalities. It seems to me that discovering these areas, that are indeed self toxic, can be tricky. They can be masked with good intentions, or even more difficult to look through, masked with hurts done to us… Continue reading →
Stirring My Soul
1 When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
2 The more the prophets called them, the more they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
3 Yet I taught Ephraim to walk; I took them on my arms; but they knew not that I healed them.
4 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love; and I was to them as they that lift up the yoke on their jaws; and I laid food before them. Continue reading →
Catching Snow Flakes In Your Own Back Yard
All we wanted to do was get to the hill for some sliding. What we really wanted was to skate, but that takes a lot more planning and we were running out of time on one of the few warm days this January. Dad held us up at the last and we ended up sitting in a toboggan, in the yard, trying to catch the fantastically fluffy snow flakes on our tongues.
