cultivating me

These are my daughter’s own words.  If it wasn’t clear to me how grown up she is and is getting, it sure is now!! Pay close attention to the last paragraph because I think she’s on to something there.  It is things like this which make me look at her and ask “Is she really [...]

The kids didn’t have school today in honor of Veteran’s Day and so last night was the night of the Homecoming Dance for my daughter’s high school.  I know Monday is a weird night to host a dance but with no school on Tuesday it sort of made sense and I bet the cost for [...]

Happy Birthday Luis I’ve started this post so many times over the past week and words have not seem to come to me.  Today you turned  13 – THIRTEEN LUIS!  – and I am still having a hard time wrapping my mind around this fact.  I don’t know why it is hard for me to [...]

I finally got around to downloading photos form my camera today and found some really great shots – many of which I had intended to include in a post.  However, we all know that good intentions are nice but don’t really amount to anything and the proof of that is the lack of writing that [...]

all i can say is she’s my daughter and i think she is amazing! This is a from my daughter’s blog. My daughter – she’s 14 – but apparently much much wiser than her years at times.  After I read this and after I was able to get some of the tears under control, I [...]

My beautiful daughter…HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! (this is where a picture of the princess herself goes but the add image button on my blog is broken) Oh Danielle where do I begin? Today you’re 14 – FOURTEEN!!!! This is so hard for me to believe. I don’t think that I am quite ready for it. I just [...]

I’m a young mom – younger than almost all of the other parents I know with children the same age as my children. I’m 33 and my daughter, the oldest, will be 14 in just a few weeks. Do the math…go ahead…I’ll wait…yes, I really was that young when she was born. Judge me if [...]

The family question at dinner tonight was: “If you had the power to change the world, what would you change first?” The little guy said:  “I would change the homeless people to have money.  Not really to be rich but to be able to have what they need: homes, food, clothes, school” The older boy:  [...]