Acknowledging the good you have in your life is the foundation for all abundance                                                 – Eckhart Tolle – What a year. Picking through the good times and bad, the […]

I live in a madhouse run by a tiny army that I made myself anonymous Siblings Fight should be a sign nailed to all parents’ bedroom doors who consider having […]

If a toddler comes up to you and offers you a cookie, don’t take it. It is not a cookie. It’s the flu. My husband and I are generally very […]

A typical scene from the past at our home: Enter three-year old Otis, wide eyed and in a hurry. Loud crying in the background: “If something happened to Sam I […]

“Laughter will succeed where threats punishments and pious lectures will not. Peter Tremayne Badgers Moon My husband and I had six children in eight years. Some of them came two […]

Pride goeth before the fall -Book of Proverbs, the Bible Faye Lippitt There are certain mileposts in a child’s life that mark a transition from one developmental stage to another. […]

My husband and I live in a quiet, orderly home. It wasn’t always like this – we come from a rowdy, rough-and-tumble, tumultuous, noisy (I could make an essay out […]

I have a warm feeling after playing with my grandchildren. It’s the liniment working. – anonymous I heard that if you put a frog in a pot of boiling water […]

Kidspeak at Camana Bay Band Practice Faye Lippitt “ Music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm.” – Shakespeare, Measure For Measure “All […]

Now is the winter of our discontent -Shakespeare, Richard III Some folks ask what good summer is without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. Now I am all […]