Are you afraid of heights?

Are you afraid of heights?

by | Apr 19, 2010 | Faith, Kids

We lived in Chicago for one year. But we left before the Sears Tower opened its glass-bottomed sky deck. One hundred and three stories above ground. I don’t know if I would have had the courage to step out onto it anyway. The glass is four 1-1/2-inch-thick and can...

Something that moved me this week was when

by | Apr 16, 2010 | Kids, Motherhood

I rode the train today. And watched the long, limp, limbs of the three year old boy-child across the aisle wrap into the lap of his mother. Wheels and i-pods and doors open closing to the beat of the announcer’s voice. And a boy sleeping deep. His head bob-rocking...
Are you afraid of heights?

Note to self

by | Apr 15, 2010 | Kids

Spend more time smelling the roses tulips than worrying about the weeds.

My safe place

by | Apr 13, 2010 | Faith

Some mornings facing the day is scary. My heart races as I lie in bed, the alarm glowing green in the dark. It’s time to go. It’s time to peel myself up and out of the cocoon – blankets and baby boys’ soft yielding limbs that are tangled up in...

The language that every child speaks

by | Apr 12, 2010 | Kids, Motherhood, Raising Boys

I am tired a lot of the time. Tiredness makes the edges of life seem fuzzy and throws off your focus. I usually consider tiredness a price worth paying if it means I can squeeze into already overcrowded days time alone. So I steal time away from my pillow and give it...