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     I have certain expectations of any supper that I have at my own home.  If it is a ‘normal’ porkchop supper with Sara and the three girls I expect that the four of them will share three and I will eat the other four.  Now, before I get too far–I am very thankful when [...]

‘honour your father and mother‘St. Paul told the Ephesian Christians so long ago.
Parents are very peculiar people–we beg and desire to have kids to call our own and then we worry constantly that our children won’t ‘live up to par’. We claim to be [...]

Where is the splash?  Doesn’t that seem to be the big question with a lot of things these days?  We need adrenaline pumping for anything to feel like it is worth doing or paying attention to.  Some people like to live on the edge of danger, others on the idea of something being thrilling and [...]

Today is that greatest of all days as far as mothers and their children are concerned–it dawned on me this year, how much our relationships with our mothers can greatly change.  Please don’t hear me saying that love somehow dies or that there isn’t a close bond after years of having one–but the facts are [...]

Don’t know if you saw the CBC special the other night about ‘Hyper Parenting and Coddled Kids’ but it was an interesting look at how a generation has come with this new experiment where parents are constantly hovering and kids are being so coddled and how it is affecting them in social circles.
It basically covered [...]

I wait with anticipation for January!  My favourite shows to watch come on: 24, American Idol & a new session of the Biggest Loser.
However, this year I am disappointed with all three. 
First, I think 24 has run its course–there is nothing new, nothing unexpected and perhaps the most exciting, action packed television series has seen [...]

     Last night we had according to Olivia the ‘greatest night ever.’  It is surprising how many of those we have had in her short life time.  She had received an Easy bake oven cake decorating pen and we were trying it out for the first time.  Sara had made a batch of Sugar cookies [...]

     There are some things that parents have a hand in but at the same time can’t force occuring in their chil(ren)’s lives and if they don’t occur can end up breaking their hearts.  These are not things of great disappointment that cause parents shame but they are disappointing in the sense that while there [...]

‘You know where Liars go…’
‘Buy the truth and sell it not’
‘Speak truth with each other’
So goes the old idea that it always important to tell the truth.  I think most of us agree that nobody really likes liars.  Yet, it is amazing how often lying gets justified in our minds either as something that is [...]

     There was a time that I knew everything there was to raising children: before I had any!
     Then there was still a time that my knowledge was a lot higher then it is now: when my children were still really small!
     There still are times when my knowledge is higher then others: when I’m [...]