My youngest daughter’s favorite foods are spaghetti and cheese. Her favorite meal is spaghetti with “red sauce” and mounds of parmesan cheese on top. She always wants to put the parm on herself, and when I tell her to stop, that she’s got too much, she tells me “I like too much!” I get it. […]
Two of my kids play soccer, and it has surprised me how much joy I find sitting on the sidelines of a soccer field on a Saturday morning. This year my son’s soccer coach would frequently shout, “Take your time buddy! You’ve got plenty of time!” It seemed like strange thing to say, because they […]
(This is a repost from previous Octobers) The first two times we found out that I was pregnant, we quickly told friends and family our exciting news. When we found out we were pregnant with our third child, we held it close, a happy secret shared between the two of us. We felt like […]
I think of myself as a reasonably intelligent human being. But helping my ten-year-old with his homework is challenging that belief. The other day I had to look up the difference between complex and compound sentences. I am, apparently, not smarter than a 5th grader. Reading about grammar got me thinking about semicolons, commas, periods […]