Lost and not found

While I was baking a green bean casserole to take to the cheer banquet tonight, I thought I’d show my mom the video clips from Laura’s state gymnastics meet last Saturday. It seemed like a simple enough activity, but it soon became an exercise in frustration. Why? I could not find the cable that connected [...]

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Need some advice?

I’m the type who likes to consult others and is willing to take their advice, especially if I ask for it. I’m a firm believer that I don’t always have all the answers (or even the right ones) and that different viewpoints can shed light on what may seem to me like a closed door. [...]

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Going on strike

I was out of town for three days last month, only to come home at 9 pm on the third day to a sink full of dirty dishes. They weren’t my dirty dishes, mind you, but those of my husband and kids. They must have been saving them up for me to do when I got back, [...]

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Expectations

I’ve been thinking a lot about expectations in the last few days. My family has high expectations of me and what they think I should do for them. For example: my husband expects me to remember everything that could be linked to a time or date on the calendar. It doesn’t matter to him where [...]

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Family vacation vs. air conditioning

My dreams of a family-bonding vacation to Yellowstone National Park this summer have been completely dashed by several harsh realities. First off, I knew things weren’t going in my favor when I couldn’t find any hotels in or near the park and airfare was ridiculously expensive as far back as last spring. Then my husband and kids [...]

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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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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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Family vacation

A few weekends ago, I tried to use the Internet to begin planning our family vacation. Most years we don’t go anywhere for vacation because the kids have always played baseball and softball. But this year we decided to see if I had enough frequent flier miles to purchase tickets so we could fly out west. I [...]

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Cleaning closets

My husband proposed a project for me for this coming weekend. He wants me to clean out a closet where I stuffed a bunch of clothes I weeded from my closet a year ago. I was going to take them to a resale shop, but had to cancel the appointment. I never rescheduled it, so [...]

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Yard work is hard!

I spent the weekend trying to catch up on yard work. I’ve been out of town for two back-to-back business trips and when I’ve been home, it seems like it’s either rainy, or cold, or both, so I’m not inclined to go outside and plant stuff or trim anything. So I tried to cram it [...]

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