Our home continues to be a construction zone while we endure a big landscape project. With a ... Read More about Ten-Million Steps
Ten-Million Steps
Our home continues to be a construction zone while we endure a big landscape project. With a projected completion date of three months ago, such S-L-O-W progress has become almost comical. When the bright blue job-johnny appeared, installed conspicuously among our green grapevines, I should have known “one to two weeks” was not going to happen. Sleeping with the…
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Not Lettin’ Go!
Three+ weeks of Panther camp is in the books. Long, hot sunny days spent with high energy kids who apparently have to go to the bathroom constantly. Ian would know because escorting kids is one of his duties. “I think they’re playing me mom,” he reports. The bathroom visits are never urgent and include lots of horsing around. Military camp,…
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Rumble Strips
A Nightly Ritual When I was in junior high, I wrote in a fake leather diary with a bold warning on the cover ‘Top Secret.’ Protected with only a flimsy lock, I took extra security measures to hide it in the back of my underwear drawer. To read it now, makes me laugh, then cringe, then cry. So much unnecessary…
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The 7th Inning Stretch
A lifetime ago, the favorite part of my marketing job was presenting. In front of a team of evaluators, I confidently explained my company’s software proposal. Someone else handled the technical aspects while I negotiated terms and made promises others had to keep. What a dream arrangement. Oh… and I paid for lunch. Later with young kids at home, I presented…
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The Crazy Makers
Divide and conquer was a parenting strategy Doug and I used when our kids were young. It worked well in our family of four. One parent focused on one kid, the other parent, the other kid. Individual attention maximized, and necessary compromise minimized. Since we know the clock is ticking for our kids willingness, this past week we took it…
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