When Love is Spelled P-U-P-P-Y

by | Feb 22, 2016 | Relationships

“We are NEVER getting a dog.” These words had been spoken countless times by my husband and I over the past ten years. Although we’ve always liked our friends’ dogs, we’ve never considered ourselves animal people, and with providing foster care to countless...

When Fear Comes Knocking

by | Oct 12, 2015 | Life Issues

“Dad!” shouted a fearful small voice from the bedroom across the hall.   As my husband rolled out of bed, a glance at the clock glowed with a time well past midnight. Shadows. They have suddenly become sinister in the eyes of our child as they loom and...

The Real Back to School List

by | Sep 5, 2015 | General

Here we are, mamas, at the beginning of another school year. Backpacks and new shoes have been crossed off our lists. Headphones and what-in-the-world-are-My-First-Pencils — check. Haircuts and awkward photos on the front step the kids will cringe at in 10 years...

Butterfly Gonna Fly

by | Aug 6, 2015 | Leadership

For my son’s sixth birthday this past May, my husband and I bought him a kit for growing butterflies. A small container holding five caterpillars arrived in the mail the day before his birthday, and the following morning he opened his presents and peered inside the...