If you have kids – especially teenagers – that need to be dropped off or picked up at school, you will probably encounter at least one of these rules in some form at some point in your career as a chauffeur. Here are the rules as declared by my teens followed by my own version. [...]
Archive for September, 2009
surviving carpool with teenagers
Posted in Uncategorized on September 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The time is right…
Posted in Uncategorized on September 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
to wear red shoes. and be happy. plus, i got these for $21 at ross, so that makes me really happy. what’s making you smile today?
bittersweet
Posted in Uncategorized on September 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To taste bitter is distressing to the mind. acidic and distasteful to the tongue. To taste sweet is pleasing to the mind and feelings. It is delightful to the tongue. Bittersweet is pleasure alloyed with pain. I am tasting the sweetness of watching my kids grow into such wonderful people, the sweetness of family support and stability. [...]
Hunter/HOH
Posted in Uncategorized on September 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
My job is in jeopardy. Another woman wants to run my household and raise my kids. And there are days I would let her do just that – if only she were old enough to drive carpool. But she’s not. She’s 14. And she’s my daughter. A friend of mine says it’s a stage. She [...]
Cell phone/bible
Posted in Uncategorized on September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I was sitting in carpool line. My thoughts were heavy with some big decisions Heath And I need to make for our future. I recalled a passage from scripture that I was wanting to re-read. Not having a “bible” handy I reached for my phone and realized that it is truly a sign of [...]
Me? a mammogram?
Posted in Uncategorized on September 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I will be 39 next month. I am a 38 year old women. So the suggestion of a mammogram from my Doc last week came as quite a shocker. Here I thought that was an “old lady test” not a test for me. The next morning I call to make my appointment. “Low ( I [...]
Who am I
Posted in Uncategorized on September 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I volunteer every once in a while at the women’s shelter here in town. It’s never an easy day when I go but somehow they always give me more than I give them. They usually are broke, beaten down, ashamed and confused but still…I learn from them. I have to admit that the first time [...]
YOUR teen girl and her “clothes”
Posted in Uncategorized on September 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Preparing your teen daughter for the pressures of “looking stylish” vs. “suggestively dressing” is a battle I see in my future for many years. Ugghhhhh Belinda Luscombe, in her article, The Truth About Teen Girls, which appeared in Time Magazine, explores the scary intersection of girlhood and sex and how early this crossing appears to [...]
How do you want to be remembered?
Posted in Uncategorized on September 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I just returned from a trip where I visited my ailing Grandmother. She has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. She is 85. The mark she has left on this earth and on my heart is HUGE. GIANORMOUS. I know everyone thinks they have the best grandparents in the world but I actually did. Really. [...]
Prasie Him anyway…
Posted in Uncategorized on September 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The bad stuff is when praise becomes a sacrifice. I’m not saying find the good in your situation and just praise God for that. Scripture says to praise God IN EVERYTHING and FOR ALL THINGS. Reading those scriptures hit me hard. I know I certainly haven’t praised God in and for all the things that [...]
