This is my first time to be a Little League parent. It has been a learning experience for my whole family, not just Zeke. We are half way through the season now and his team’s skill level has gone from bad to not as bad. We lose, a lot. In fact our team has won a single, solitary game [...]

I did some traveling lately to a magical land called Malibu. Now to get to Malibu from Arkansas, I took an airplane, which is a big deal for someone afraid of heights and closed in places. For my first flying experiences, I think I did great. IF you don’t count me grabbing my friend and yelling “WHAT [...]

All sorts of things are changing around the Sanders house.  Going and coming, work and school.  I am concentrating on holding back a tide of dirty clothes that threaten to break down the laundry room door in the midst of dropping off and picking up. Not to mention the mountainous paperwork that is involved in sending offspring to be [...]

Today many of us will face obstacles that seem too large to overcome.  Pain and illness. People who appear impossible to love and incapable of receiving it.  Bills that drop out of the sky and threaten to wipe out our meager family resources. Add to this the constant media stream dire predictions for the fate of our loved ones, not to mention [...]

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 [...]

Are you a swimmer or water treader?
Water treaders like to feel safe. More than anything else in the whole wide world.  So they make up rules for others to follow.  Which keeps them extra safe. They like to spend time arguing.  Monitoring anyone who doesn’t adhere to status quo. Some even have badges on their lapels that say ”This is how we have always [...]

Baby #1. For the first two weeks of my oldest sons’ life we ate all meals in the bathroom. Standing up. Shoveling food in like refugees.
Why? Because I couldn’t stand to eat in front of him.  I was certain that the wafting scent of Kentucky Fried Chicken would make him cry. Longing for something he could [...]

1.  I have put pretzels up my nose.  Just to see what it would feel like.  Since I have been an adult.
2.  I walked two blocks in urine soaked pants while pregnant with my third child. Indignant and angry that I had apparently just become incontinent.  Daring someone to ask “Excuse me..Did you pee your pants?”  Strangely enough, [...]

This is the season of weddings and new beginnings.  Hopefullness and optimism abound.  Especially with those who are on the cusp of marriage and babies.  It is such an exciting time.
Let’s be honest though.  More than a few of us feel a little tired and jaded.  We have been wading in marital bliss for long enough [...]

This weekend I will don a bathing suit.  I will pretty much live in one until October rolls around. I will laugh and play and not worry about what anyone thinks of my body.  This is new territory for a recovering body hater. 
How in the world did this happen?   I stopped beating myself up for something that did not matter, [...]