When your then 5-year-old son tinkers with the idea of dance classes, you never know where it might go. You wrestle with your own stereotypes of what should interest a little boy, you do your best to protect him from the girls’ taunting that, unfortunately, is the sinful nature of children, and you hope […]
With over ½ of our summer gone (scary thought!), and after lamenting that all of our plans for academic studies have gone awry, I find myself asking that all-too-familiar question: where has the time gone??!! To be sure, we have been busy. In fact, I sometimes think that, regardless of what our car might look […]
This post could have just as easily have been entitled “Second Week of Summer,” but my heart is not to document how we spend each week of what I anticipate to be a 10-week break from our school routine. But this was a week of “ah-has,” as we called them in my corporate days–the point […]
Our final dance competition (since our directors decided to not attend the Nationals this year) was earlier this month. Though I always cheer for the kids, this performance was special for our family. All of the performance teams were given a chance to join with the original competitive team and form a larger production number. […]
Apparently, there are a number of bird watchers/ lovers in my midst. It blessed me to “hear” from several of you and to watch the previous blog post get distributed, then redistributed, then… Thank you! On top of all of that, as if the Lord said, “You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet,” the first red-breasted robin visited us soon after I published […]