Practice driving

My daughter asked me to let her drive home from her gymnastics practice last night. My first thought was “No way!” but then I realized she’ll never learn to drive if I don’t let her behind the wheel. What good is driver’s ed. if she never gets to practice what she’s learning? She also had [...]

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A bad decision

Have you ever made a really bad decision, but didn’t realize it at the time? Then later the gravity of your mistake began to sink in and weigh heavy on your conscience? That feeling describes how our family felt last night after having our family portrait taken for our church’s directory.
After we took the pictures, we [...]

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Driver’s ed.

My daughter took her first driver’s ed. class yesterday. Now she’s quizzing me on arcane facts like if I’m travelling at 50 miles per hour, how many feet in advance of a turn do I signal my intent to turn? I guessed 50 feet. (Answer: 300 ft.) Okay– so I flunked. I told her most [...]

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Time waster!

I just wasted the better part of my evening fooling around in Facebook. I was going to go to bed early tonight and get up early to do some work, but now it looks like I’ll just be tired in the morning instead. I guess it means I really didn’t want to do the work [...]

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Summer vacation plans cancelled?

We got our son’s all-star baseball schedule tonight. When the coach asked the parents what their vacation plans were, nobody said anything until I spoke up. We were planning a family vacation in mid-July, the first real vacation we’ve had in 4-5 years. Now my husband is afraid to miss an all-star tournament that week, [...]

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Best friends

My best friend and I had a ‘date’ of dinner and a movie on Saturday night. We were ready for a fun evening together and a chick flick was icing on the cake. After eating at Hacienda, we saw the movie Sex and the City, which we thought was pretty good. Neither of us has HBO [...]

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What’s for lunch?

Now that my kids are on their own for the first time this summer, the question of what’s for lunchlooms larger than ever. When I talked to my daughter today, she said all they had was leftover macaroni and cheese (and soft drinks, I discovered later). They didn’t eat any chicken nuggets or turkey lunch [...]

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Growing up

I recently wrote about letting go of kids as they get older, how their interests change, and how they want to do new and different things than they did as younger children. I mentioned that my own mother was having a harder time letting my kids grow up than I was. She was upset that [...]

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Summer is here

I think I put away my winter coat for the last time this spring. It had been riding around in my car for several days because earlier last week, my son had an evening baseball game and the weather was still cool enough (to me) to justify wearing a winter coat. I think I can [...]

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