Mommy’s World

If you hang around our family long enough you’ll eventually hear one of our “made-up” tunes. Mostly they are melodies we know with our own lyrics replacing the originals. A favorite with the kids is a personalized version of the Elmo’s World theme song. Well today, JBelle got in on the fun and started making [...]

Plum good, or not

DB offered The GMan a bite of his plum. After taking a bite, The Gman responded, “I can’t like it!”* He then looked back at DB and said, “You can like it!”
*”I can’t like it!” is something we hear from The GMan on a regular basis. It has a couple of variations including, “I can’t want [...]

Home is where…

…they have to let you in.
…you hang your hat.
…your heart is.
Sometime in the next week or so (I don’t remember the exact date), David and I will have lived in Nashville for ten years. We moved here in June 1997 from Virginia. When we packed up our belongings, put them in a moving truck and [...]

Imperfect Perfection

One of my favorite features of NPR is the essay series called, This I Believe. Last week, an essay by a journalist from Athens, Ohio caught my attention. The title of the essay, A Marriage That’s Good Enough by Corinne Colbert, was intriguing to me since I try to regularly write about marriage here. I [...]

He Said/She Said: The 5 Things I Want To Teach My Children

When David suggested this topic for a He Said/She Said post, I thought sure – no problem, right? Turns out this little exercise wasn’t as easy as I’d thought it would be. You’d think I would have already considered these things and in many ways I have but actually sitting down and defining them was [...]

Smurfs – the Movie

  There is a movie that needs to come out soon given all the retro movies in recent years.  Wouldn’t you just love to see some live action Smurf movie?  Gargamel could be played by John Lithgow, Smurfette by Jessica Simpson, Jude Law as Brainy Smurf, and Will Ferrell as Papa Smurf.  Oh what fun and adventures we could [...]

Civility Lost

My good friend Sheryl has a post up from an article out of USA Today. It’s a top 25 list of things that have seemingly “disappeared” over the past twenty-five years. I chuckled at things like typwriters, Betamax, vinyl records, New Coke, etc., but when I got to #15 my amusement was abatted:

15 Civility
It can [...]

Home Alone

I’m playing hooky from church this morning. Friday, at the pool, I got a really bad sunburn and I am unable to wear a vital piece of underclothing…know what I mean? Yeah, it’s that bad! I’m well versed in the benefits of and need for sunscreen, believe me. I just made a stupid decision on [...]

Science Primer

I haven’t done one of these in a while. It doesn’t ever seem to really help, but it makes me feel better.  Please pardon the interruption for these few words…
Science. What is science and what can it do for you? The goal of science is to understand and share understanding of [...]

Bubble Ballet

A boy and his dog and a bubble machine.