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As I contemplate trying to teach my 4 year old how to ride a bike this summer (no small feat considering I am not particularly inspired to ride one myself), I started thinking back to bike lessons from my Dad about 30 years ago. I remember wobbling along on my training wheels, headed straight for a parked truck, and my Dad shouting behind me "Don't look at the truck!! Look at the road, where you want to go!" I still remember noticing my reflection in the chrome bumper a moment before impact. The subsequent goose egg might explain a few...

I find I learn alot about humanity and God by being a Mom. Aha moment #4782 (roughly): My 19 month old daughter Isla busted into the pantry and managed to nab one of her favourite snacks. I saw what she had done and decided she could have the snack, but when I tried to take it from her to open it on her behalf, she wouldn't let go. So there she was, holding on to a delicious snack that she couldn't enjoy, because she couldn't open it without my help. She was terrified to let it go, incase my plan...

As a mom of really young ones, everything is bite-sized. Pancakes cut into little bites. Grapes quartered. I don't tell my girls what we are doing next week or often even tomorrow because they can't tell time and just get confused. For awhile I marked festivals and other fun things down on a calendar, and my almost-4-year-old thought she could make them come quicker by crossing off a whole bunch of days all at once LOL. She'd try to rush the good stuff. If she heard about bad stuff like dentist appointments too far in advance, she'd live in a...

A letter I wrote to my wonderful daughters (and to anyone else who stops to read): I wish for you each to see in life your "happily ever after". Yes, I believe in Happily Ever After. Not the fairytale kind, where a prince sweeps you off your feet, and you head off into the sunset with nary a concern ever again. But an even better kind... Happily Ever After where at the end of the day your feet hurt and your eyes are blurry and you are SO THANKFUL for everything you did that day. Where you hear the people...