Over the weekend we drove to Arkansas from our home at the foothills of the Appalachias and then, as life would have it, back unexpectedly.(when you have four young adults, SOMEONE always has a car issue, it is a sure bet if you’re ever at the track) Thirteen hours in a truck, followed by twenty…
Lifelines
Old we grow…and hopefully wiser too
The path of a blended family is sometimes challenging. When Dh and I married almost thirteen years ago we had four children ages five to sixteen, we lived at that time, six hours from one another, and our children had met each other exactly twice when we decided to marry. (it was either marry or…
Is something out of place?
This weekend there was a bed in my kitchen. Yes, a bed. My college aged daughter was ready to give up her twin bed and trade out for a bed my mother bought when she was a young teacher long ago in Texas. My daughter, the artistic soul, had always kept a twin bed and…