“(Love) always protects.” – 1 Corinthians 13:7 Dear Me, Remember when you held our oldest for the first time. He was so beautiful, flawless, innocent. There was not a single physical or emotional scar on him and your strongest desire was to keep him that way. In that moment you morphed into a mother. This …
Category Archive: Letting Go
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2012
Dec
21
2011
Dear Me: About Kids and Faith
“And that ends round 2 between Jesus of Nazareth and Voldemort of Great Britain!” – Johnathan Durbin Dear Me, OK, let’s take a break from 1Corinthians to talk about the expectations you have about your kids’ faith in the Jesus area – with a Christmas emphasis. You do a pretty good job sharing your faith …
Dec
09
2011
Dear Me: About Envy
“Envy comes from people’s ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.” Jean Vanier “(Love) does not envy.” 1Corinthians 13:4 Dear Me: About Parental Envy, It’s so easy when you are holding your beautiful newborn in your arms to say that you will accept them just the way they are. You and Troy …
Oct
04
2011
Laughing At Spilled Milk: Scrapbooking
OK, so I don’t scrapbook. Never saw the point. Not only did I not have the time when the kids were growing up, but there was NO WAY I could have justified it to Troy, my thrifty Scotsman. “Hey baby, I’m going to take this simple $10 slip in the pocket photo album and turn it into …
May
09
2011
Dear Me, About Graduation Torture
Dear Me, My emotions have been deliberately and shamelessly manipulated by the children’s choir teacher (who happens to be a personal friend of mine, so I can’t yell at her without consequences). Every year about this time the 200 kids that make up the different high school choirs put on this really great program they …
May
08
2011
Dear Me, About Mother’s Day
Dear Me, Remember when you were pregnant with Timothy and your first Mother’s Day rolled around and you asked Troy what he was going to do for you to celebrate and he looked at you all confused and said, “What do you mean? You’re not a mother.” Well, he doesn’t get much better. My advice? …
Apr
29
2011
Dear Me, About Releasing Kids into the Wild…
“Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.” – Robert A. Heinlein Dear Me, So I’m talking to our sister today and she’s telling me that she is probably going to have to take her kids out of private Christian school and put them into public because they can’t really afford the steep tuition …
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