This past week, a very dear friend sent me a lamp of an orange turtle. We love it. Once we opened it up and got a light in it, we talked about the video of Boston playing with the turtle that we had caught…
Last week our youngest daughter had a 24 hour stomach bug. While her belly hurt and she was running for the bathroom, several times she looked at me and yelled, "Mom, I can't do this! The pain is too much! I am sure I…
Boston, our youngest, loved monster trucks. Loved them. When he was two he had started to playing with the couple of monster trucks that we had lingering around the house from his older brother. My husband started to show him videos on You Tube…
I was talking with a friend several months ago who is in the midst of grief and while she was talking she said, "I just want to learn what God wants me to learn and get past this." I could understand how she feels.…
There have been many times over the last decade when we found out that a friend had lost their child, or a friend of a friend asking what they should do or say to help their friend in grief. Do you want to…
In November of 2009, a new friend called me and said, "Michelle, we found out today that our baby died, can you watch our daughter so we can go deliver our baby girl." Within the next hour, their toddler daughter was on our doorstep…
My favorite sport is football. I have many fond memories of sitting on my dad's lap watching the 49ers play while my mom made lunch on Sunday afternoons (he's originally from San Jose, so for a bit after moving to Massachusetts he'd cheer on…