by Robin | Dec 12, 2011 | Family, Friends, friendship, Kids, Music, Teens & Tweens
{This post will be most appreciated by people who actually know us…feel free to click away. 🙂 } "Hey–I've got a GREAT idea!" I tell 'em. "After dinner, break into groups and re-write the lyrics to songs you know and...
by Robin | Nov 6, 2011 | 31 Days of Parenting Teens & Tweens, Kids, Mom stuff, Parenting, Teens & Tweens
Oh, my. I done done it now. If I haven't yet stepped on your toes, I bet the title of this piece alone got your dander up. Or at least raised your curiosity. Surely she doesn't mean what she wrote, you're thinking. But I do. I...
by Robin | Oct 31, 2011 | Animals, Kids, Life with boys, Memoir, Mom stuff, Nature, Nostalgia, Personal, Teens & Tweens
"There's a snake in my boots." ~ Woody, Toy Story It didn't matter if it was 90 degrees in the shade and a thousand percent humidity, he'd paint on his Wranglers and cram his feet into miniature Tony Lama's. Cowboys don't...
by Robin | Oct 18, 2011 | 31 Days of Parenting Teens & Tweens, Kids, Mom stuff, Parenting, Teens & Tweens
~ 31 Days of Parenting Teens & Tweens, Day 13 ~ Parenting is swimming upstream, especially when you're countering culture. There are so many pressures and "acceptances," it's easy to become desensitized to issues worthy of The...
by Robin | Oct 18, 2011 | Beauty, Favorite things, Gratitude, Kids, Mom stuff, Mothers and daughters
She is full and hungry when she arrives. And ready. I didn't like that part, though. Ready made me wait. But Ready made a heart grow impossibly fonder, love smothering complaint like snow blanketing barren ground. I'm full...
by Robin | Oct 15, 2011 | 31 Days of Parenting Teens & Tweens, Kids, Mom stuff, Parenting, Teens & Tweens
~ 31 Days of Parenting Teens & Tweens, Day 10 ~ In a country where the divorce rate hovers around 50%, it's hard for me–a recovering people pleaser–to say what I'm about to say. I realize potentially I could offend or hurt every...