motherhood

Will You Still Love Me If I’m Not Mary Poppins?

One of my favorite scenes in Mary Poppins is when she has just met the Banks children, and she measures them with a tape measure which is printed with attributes about them right at their heights.  When Mary Poppins is then measured, the tape measure reads, “Practically Perfect in Every Way.” I’m here to say [...]

My Mom Says I Saved Her Life, But She’ll Appreciate it More Later

It’s hard to imagine right now that exactly two weeks ago, my Mom was fine (or at least we thought she was), and we were gearing up for a week of visiting with my eldest sister and her family.  It’s funny how some of the most life changing things are those that you just completely [...]

Oh no! Not the Popsicle Privileges!

This year was the first time that the kids have gone to Vacation Bible School where I didn’t stay and volunteer.  Two of the days of VBS week found me hanging out in a local Panera chatting on Facebook working on my blogs. On the first day I was there, two mothers came in with [...]

Top Ten Reasons My Kids Wish They Were Me

Just like network television has to offer up equal time to political candidates, I thought it would be one sided to only share the reasons that I wish I was one of my kids.  I was just going to guess on the reasons my kids might want to be me, but they were happy to [...]

It Pays to Listen to Your Children

It’s funny that as an adult, my natural inclination (and I suspect the natural inclination of a lot of us parents) is to assume that we know better than our kids do. How many times have you said to do (or not to do) something, and when your kids ask why, you tell them that [...]

My Guess As to How Seamus Colored Our Cool Whip Without Opening It

Last week, Seamus the Leprechaun came to pay us a visit for St. Patrick’s Day.  I have had a few people who wanted me to theorize how in the world Seamus did his little trick with our Cool Whip.  So, here’s where I take my guess. Well, first, in case you didn’t read about it, [...]

Easy Make Ahead Crab Dip

One of my favorite things about having parties or get-togethers that my Mom goes to with me is that I can ask her to make crab dip for it.  I love that crab dip.  I crazy love it. I recently needed to take an appetizer to a dinner and I had my mind on crab [...]

The Valentine’s Dance

Since Eric and I have been dating since high school, all of my memories of formals and semi-formals include him.  That’s kind of fun, I think.  I don’t have to say to people, “Oh yeah — do you remember when I went to prom with that guy?”  I can remember picking out the special dresses, [...]

How Do You Get Caught Up?

I don’t know if it’s the weather or so much sickness going around or just the time of year, but it seems like a lot of people that I have talked to lately report just feeling behind in just about everything.  I am feeling like that too.  So, of course, I know that none of [...]

Real Life Confessions: The Lack of Focus Edition

People online say it, and so do people I know in person, “Angie — you do so much.  You have it all together.  How do you do it all?” I don’t. That is — I don’t have it all together and I don’t do it all.  As a matter of fact, I’m feeling a bit [...]

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