by Robin | Oct 29, 2011 | Favorite things, friendship, God's Country, Nostalgia, Personal
I can taste the Fall of 1981. My freshman year in college. The stupidest of times. The best of times. A season of sowing oats and seizing days and when the prayers of my future in-laws must have been protecting me the most. It was the year I'd...
by Robin | Oct 29, 2011 | 31 Days of Parenting Teens & Tweens, Parenting, Teens & Tweens
~ 31 Days of Parenting Teens & Tweens, Day 19 ~ I don't know why it took me so long to learn this one; it's not like she didn't tell me e v e r y time I did it. Embarrassed her. In front of grown-ups. And sometimes ~ cardinal sin...
by Robin | Oct 24, 2011 | 31 Days of Parenting Teens & Tweens, Parenting, Teens & Tweens
~ 31 Days of Parenting Teens & Tweens, Day 18 ~ Had I learned a simple lesson earlier in marriage, the past 24 years might have been smoother. The art of t i m i n g. It can be the difference between delight and disappointment, contentment or...
by Robin | Oct 23, 2011 | Uncategorized
Last week I shared the most adorable wedding video on the planet, and this week we're going to learn where babies come from. Not birds or bees or cabbage patches or storks… …apparently they come from balloons!! Now, this is one...
by Robin | Oct 23, 2011 | 31 Days of Parenting Teens & Tweens, Advice, Parenting
~ 31 Days of Parenting Teens & Tweens, Day 17 ~ In wee hours when bones rattled and patience grew thick because it had no other choice, I'd inhale her scent and exhale "This, too, shall pass." Every parent learns that "sleeping...