November 15, 2022 Shifting Time, Adapting Traditions Yesterday a notification from my calendar app popped up on my phone. It read, “Pearson Family Thanksgiving at Mom & Daddy’s.” It was an old recurring appointment I’d just never deleted. I guess I hoped we’d restart it someday. The recurring day was [...]
Chore Chart Revisit October 25, 2022 In our home we have a chore chart. It has had several looks and undergone several overhauls as the children grew. It isn’t an assignment chart. It’s an extras chart. The current look is a board Christina bought for her 18th birthday party and [...]
Encouragers: The Chaos Of Joy Mother October 9, 2022 I’m sitting at the desk at gym, taking payments and checking liability waivers for our open gym one Friday at noon (every Friday noon to 1pm is Open Gym – basically, allow your kiddos to expend all their energy just before [...]
Encouragers: The Challenger of Norms October 6, 2022 I’m praying for her family. I’m praying for strength, wisdom, and peace in her heart. This woman is the Challenger of Norms. She has encouraged me over many years. When my daughters ask if I have a best friend, this woman comes [...]
January 23, 2022 Lucas’ Balls (Note: This is a timewarp story from May 25, 2017. ENJOY!) Vegetables are a fun subject for writers. Toss in toddlers and you have instant comedy. For example: Lucas loves to eat. We tease that if it doesn’t eat him first, he’ll eat it! (Okay, [...]
November 11, 2021 Turn Negatives Into Positives I make that a command for myself. When we first ran our information into a loan company portal, I felt it wouldn’t happen. I kept asking for everything I could check myself. We check credit reports constantly, we knew our shortcomings and explained [...]
September 9, 2021 House Hunting 102 – Searching Searching… They say the hardest part of doing something you really want is waiting and planning. They might be right. We keep getting to the search part. We are looking for land or a house on land within 10 minutes of I95 [...]
May 16, 2020 Shattered Again. Shattered Again. This is what strikes my heart again. Of course, in the big scheme of things I realize, this is tiny. This isn’t losing a family member or going bankrupt. Logically, my brain tells me that this isn’t really a bad thing and there [...]
Stepping Back February 23, 2020 My little love is one! I’m 37. We both had birthdays this week. This is the first birthday for one of my children that I missed. I was on my way to a meeting at work when I got two adorable videos from Louis – [...]
January 7, 2020 Two Cadet Homecoming! On January 4th, a beautiful day with misty rainshowers threatening the gorgeous parade ground at Camp Blanding, I watched both of my cadets march in their pass and review (ceremony parade at the end of the 2019-2020 winter encampment). I almost cried two years [...]