Never do I feel like more of a billboard for life choices than when I’m nearly full-term pregnant.   What was cute a few months ago has become a spectacle.   I can’t fit places or bend easily.   Mostly I’m just huffing and puffing around these days.   Add in 3 other kids I’m […]

Well, it’s spring here in Kansas.  I guess it’s actually been spring for a while.  Last weekend we filled up the sandbox and we’ve already spent so much time swinging in the backyard that Gus has master pumping (yay!). I’ve been meaning to plant some flowers but our yard here in Kansas is very small […]

Meals at my house can be miserable.  Lunch more than any other.  One kid hates what I’ve put in front of him. One wants to sit on my lap and smear applesauce all over me. And the other has chosen now to fall off her chair and suffer (it seems) yet another mortal injury.  When […]

Hi Friends! It’s spring big-time around here. The grass is nearly florescent, the trees are covered in blooms and all of a sudden tulips are bursting open.  Since I always loved May Crowning as a kid, flowers get me thinking about Mary, even now as an adult.  So, in preparation for that–and because it’s just […]