I returned last Sunday night from BlogHer, the largest women’s blogging conference in the world and yes, I’m just now getting a chance to write about it, but by now, you know the drill:  Busy. Stuff going on. Changes. Can’t wait to write about everything. I’ve gone to BlogHer every year since 2007, and both […]

This morning, my six year old son made a book for me. I’d like to share it with you all. This is a person peeing. Not that you couldn’t tell. I mean, look at the blue. And the sound effect. Obvious. Meanwhile on page two, this person is loudly pooting. He merely says “p,” as […]

When my daughter was small, like many other girls her age, she was crazy about princesses. She read princess storybooks, collected princess dolls, listened to princess music, watched princess movies, and of course…   …she wore princess dresses. Everywhere she went. I didn’t encourage Punky’s princess fixation, but I didn’t discourage it, either. She was […]

I’ve spent the last week on vacation and I’ll get to that later this week- but first, here’s what I wrote while on the road– My last post, on feeling like a ‘bad Christian,’ was really difficult for me to write. It took four days of thinking before I thought it reflected what was on […]

Longtime readers of this blog know that when my stepdaughters were younger, we lived, ate, slept and breathed soccer. Both girls played recreational soccer, junior high and high school soccer, 3 v. 3 soccer, and winter indoor soccer, and Dennis coached nearly all of their teams. We started Punky in soccer when she turned three, […]