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This week brought us into single digits for our end of school year count down. In fact, now we can count down with only one hand. It's...

At my daughter's birthday party last year, we got rained out from going creek stomping and invited all her friends to our house for a...

I'm waiting for the right time. I'm waiting for the money. I'm waiting to feel better. I'm waiting until my kids are older. I'm waiting...

I used to measure seconds in the terms that all 86,400 seconds of each and every day counted. I needed to not waste a single one. Then,...

I believe that there's a lot more to learn from failing than from succeeding. After all, if everything goes smoothly every time you're...

A few weeks ago at my Monday night writing group, we talked about the word should. There are so many things we feel like we should do,...

Each year I have a word that I adopt as a word of the year. Two years ago, in 2019, my word was courage. In 2020, well before the...

This morning I just finished an ARC of Scaredy Bat and the Sunscreen Snatcher by Marina J. Bowman.

We said goodbye to Boo Boo today.

I struggle today... Brandi shares her thoughts on her struggles today during this Covid-19 time.

While I *should* be working on my grad classes, I needed a heavy escape from reality today. Author JoJo Bartlett didn't disappoint me in...

Boxes of Dinosaur Taco holders arrived on Saturday, torturing our children with demands to wait to put them together. Taco Tuesday rolled...

It was January 2010, once upon a decade ago, and I was about to have my life changed forever.

"You're never alone with the District!"

My word for 2019 was courage.

about 2 hours to go from mixing the dough to pulling the last batch of cookies out of the oven

"You deserve all the credit." I am arguing this point though because he is putting in time outside of the 30 minutes we have together every

It's been on my TBR list for awhile, but it wasn't until I told my fellow author-friend/PTA-mom-friend/teacher-friend that I am doing...

I give her some more space while I go put my contacts in and return to see that she is still wrapped in her towel on the floor. "You need to

This book did not disappoint me in its telling of a great story