Home from Boy Scout Camp – To Read Part I, please click here. It wasn’t long until the show was over and kids started straggling back, and I was again greeted by bear hugs from George and Noah and a very mature kiss on the cheek from my big guy, Matt. But this greeting was different… …
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Matt, George, and Noah got to go to Boy Scout Camp thanks to an incredibly generous donation from an anonymous donor, but by the end of the first day, one of my boys was already begging to come home and another was angry at me for sending him (Even though he had wanted to go …
Fill, questions fill my mind already like can I change fill to Full? It’s my first time on Five Minute Friday. we are given five minutes to write and drop perfection behind. I just discovered fmf, and I’ve been trying to figure it out all day. It didn’t quite match what I had wanted to post …
The boys left for Boy Scout camp this morning. They’re not allowed to use electronics on the trip, but Matt (the only one of the three with a cell phone) brought his phone in case of an emergency, and late that first night the text messages started coming through… Mom, plz pick me up. plz. I …
I just watched three of my babies (granted, one of them towers over me, but still…) head off to Boy Scout camp for a week in the woods several hours away from home. It is a week of biting bugs, notoriously bad weather (no matter what week they choose), stinky port-o-potties and camaraderie and merit badge advancement …
Tonight I’m linking up with Charity at The Wounded Dove for #GoodEnoughMom for Tuesday (Yes, I know it’s Wednesday! 🙂 ). To start off her link up, Charity asked linkers (is that what we’re called?) to post the beginning of motherhood. This is my story… The Unexpected Pregnancy – 1996 I looked up at the …
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Nothing makes a mother’s heart sing quite as much as a happy child – no matter how old that child is. And this morning, I awoke with a completely happy heart for the first time in a long time. Troy’s prom was last night. We live in a small school district of about 100 kids …
I have been overwhelmed by the number of people who reached out to me in one way or another this Mother’s Day, and want to say thank you to each and every one of you. I have a longer post coming about the day, but for now, I just want to again thank everyone and …
