This week has been a big week for the Sanders family.  Kindergarten Camp has brought the reality of a looming transition to our door step.  With big changes come lots of emotions.  I have found myself tearfully walking through this week.
In nineteen days Zeke will be headed to Kindergarten. He is not my first to go [...]

If motherhood was a destination instead of a profession, one would need to pack the following to survive:
Dramamine- for the prevention and treatment of nausea, vomiting, dizziness symptoms associated with your children eating food off the lid of the trashcan at McDonald’s.  Also works for moments of bluntness between kids and strangers about what funny noises [...]

I just walked in the door this morning after having been to Kindergarten Camp to drop off my middle child, Zeke.  I am quite surprised to be honest, that I am so weepy.  I thought I was ready for this…
I was doing just fine this morning. Smiling and taking pictures of such monumental things as waiting [...]

Are any of you out there Facebook fans? I am and have noticed that lots of people have these cute little “Just the two of us” albums.  Full of  happy snapshots featuring the couple in various romantic settings and poses. You know what I’m talking about right?
We don’t have one of those.  Greg and I have [...]

In my dreams I am Peggy Lee.  Blond, thin and poised.  Smooth in heels.  Exuding sexiness and control.  Singing and waltzing to a background band at the Copacabana. (They move with me throughout the day. I am never unaccompanied)
In reality I am average height, overly endowed and a smidgen to the right of pleasingly plump. I stumble [...]

Dear Jeans,
I am very angry with you.  You just aren’t what you used to be.  Our relationship has become a tug of war that I can hardly endure. 
Where did we go wrong?
I remember when you could go for hours at a time. Now? Please. You can’t keep it together for thirty minutes.  We barely make it out the door before you just [...]

I really struggle with forgiveness.  For myself and others.  I get one facet of forgiveness figured out and God gives me two more to work on, it seems. Today while stewing over my latest adventure in forgiveness, a very profound thought came to mind. 
Bitterness comes when we believe ourselves incapable of the brutality we have endured.
So true. Bitterness is [...]

He couldn’t sleep. Try as he might, he was unable to get relief from the events of the past few hours. How could she have brought his name up? Didn’t she know what it did to him deep inside? Just the mention of “his” name set Greg’s teeth on edge. Slumping into bed he let the memories flood [...]

Last night I stayed up way too late reading a romance novel. It was only slightly trashy since all sex took place after marriage. : ) So don’t feel you must pray for my soul…unless you want to, and that is always appreciated.
The striking thing to me was all of the kissing in this book. [...]

I hate those words. Despise them. It’s not that I don’t like to cook, I do.  It’s not that I hate cleaning up afterward, I don’t. I simply hate trying to come up with a meal that will be healthy, kid friendly, delicious, low calorie, high fiber, salty, crunchy, but not too salty or crunchy, soft, [...]