My children’s screen addictions are at least 50% my fault. Asking for help is not just about showing my vulnerability. It’s also about letting other people rise to meet their full potential. Pressure cooker canning is not hard, but I find its precision daunting. Canning is much more fun as a team sport. I...
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Getting Rescued
So this morning was … challenging. We had to be at the car place around 10 for them to replace the handle on our minivan’s rear sliding door which broke in my hand a week ago (the automatic sliding feature died years go and is too expensive to fix so we tug on the...
The Summer of Boredom
Defining Terms Just before the end of school, I declared that this would be a Summer of Boredom. The criteria for what-this-means was not complex. Basically, I had two “rules.” Monday, Wednesday, and Friday are no-screen days. I am not your activity director. We absolutely had to address the screen addiction we have going on...
Good and Hard and Good
Eric’s grandpa passed away on Friday. He’d been in congestive heart failure for a year, so it was not unexpected. But we didn’t expect it last Friday. That was hard. Calling hours were Monday. I really hate calling hours. They feel so … heavy. You are there, all sad, and other people come with...
5 Things I Learned This Spring
A short list of things I’ve learned this spring…in random order. 1. Strawberries “breed like rabbits.” We put in 50 free strawberry plants in May of 2015. This year, we harvested around 20 gallons of strawberries. For most of two weeks, I picked almost every single day. It was insane. And yummy. And I...