Anticipation, Excitement, Happiness & Joy

Perhaps one of the best parts of parenting is when you are able to participate in the pure joy your child experiences, especially when your child happens to be a teenager. There are many cool aspects of parenting, and there are likely as many or maybe more challenges...

Courage Abounds Even When We Can’t See It

I think the hardest thing for us to see in ourselves is our courage. Not only are we hard pressed to recognize any sense of bravery in ourselves, but we also find it difficult to believe any words about our fearlessness from others, whether friend or parent or...

Good Intentions Are Unreliable

There’s an expression, a popular proverb, whose origins are unknown but a form of it appears in the book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible. The original proverb says, the road to hell is paved with good intentions and the Ecclesiastes verse reads, the way of sinners is...

Their Deeply Treasured Beauty

There are days when I don’t start these posts until it is much later than I planned or anticipated. Life, as the saying goes, sometimes gets in between us and our plans. Even so, despite my 17 year old suggesting it would be okay to skip a day, I settle myself in...

Fierce & Fearless Despite Anxiety

It’s Birthday Eve Day for the 14 year old and of course that means I am considering all the ways life has changed over the years for us and for the 14 year old. The ways our youngest has navigated through the years, shedding her childhood and morphing into a teenager....