by Robin | Sep 1, 2011 | Cancer is NOT okay!, Chattanooga, Encouragement, Faith, Gratitude, Great quotes, Kids, Mom stuff, Parenting, Personal, Teens & Tweens
It is raining. There has never been a dryer month in Chattanooga than August 2011, and yet it pours. Growl and hiss, snarl and bite, it’s raining cats and dogs, the dangerous kind. Black lips curl over porcelain daggers, ready to sink in to flesh, to spill...
by Robin | Aug 17, 2011 | Family, Favorite things, Gratitude, Kids, Mothers and daughters, Parenting, Personal, Teens & Tweens
She accomplished something I haven't seen many accomplish: She changed because she wanted to. It wasn't easy, either. You see, it's one thing to see yourself as you are, desire to change something about yourself, and then...
by Robin | Jul 14, 2011 | Kids, Life with boys, Mom stuff, Mothers and daughters, Parenting, Teens & Tweens
They're carelessly scattered in obscure places, "crumbs" my children rudely leave behind. I frown and think mean thoughts whenever I find them. When they were toddlers, it was a trail of Cheerios or Gold Fish. And juice box straw...
by Robin | Jul 12, 2011 | Family, Kids, Life with boys, Mom stuff, Parenting, Teens & Tweens
If I didn't know better, I'd swear my boys are tryin' to do their ol' mother in– Apparently, they …! (Have they already forgotten ???) I haven't. I bet Jacob hasn't, either....
by Robin | Jun 30, 2011 | Family, Friends, friendship, Funny Stuff!, Great quotes, Humor, Kids, Life Philosophy, Mom stuff, Personal, Teens & Tweens
Sometimes I do or say things my kids don't care for. Like when I tell them "Do (or don't do) ________, or I'll take a baseball bat to your knee caps." For example, "If you or any of your friends ride your RipStick down our VERY STEEP...
by Robin | Jun 17, 2011 | Family, friendship, Kids, Parenting, Personal, Teens & Tweens
There's a season of life where sleep is impossible. It's the Season of Teenagers. Last night while my oldest was away at her college's pre-orientation, my two boys, 14 & close-enough-to-17-for-it-to-count, had friends over. When I went to bed,...