About three years ago we decided to start a little tradition we call ‘Family Date Night’. It started as a way to tame our eating out unnecessarily but has become one of our favorite parts of the week. The routine of work, school, church, extracurricular, etc. can be safe, but, boring. LOL! Family Date Night …
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Buzzkill
This year I started by 12th year as an educator. It’s been twelve years filled with joy, sadness, victories, defeats…and a lot of buzzwords and phrases. Maybe you’ve heard them…rigor…data-driven instruction…grit…achievement gap…standardized test…accountability…professional learning community…blah…blah…blah. Of all the words I’ve heard there are only three that REALLY matter…because we are, after all, in the business of …
Music to my Ears
Mary J. Blige’s ‘My Life’ was released in November of 1994. I remember when my brother brought it home-for many years he would buy me Mary’s CDs when they hit the stores-I sat and listened to it for hours. As I went through years of teen angst I would turn to that CD, and many …
Father Knows Best
When Josephine was about 2 years old I started a list called ‘What Josephine has Taught Me about God’. The list came about as I started reflecting on my daily interactions with her and what God was doing in my life. Both of my children were born with a healthy dose of stubbornness and she …
Outside Looking In
The other day I was talking to a friend about the years I spent absolutely refusing to get my principal’s certification. I explained that for several years I lacked the ability to care or understand why some people couldn’t or wouldn’t just do their jobs; so administration wasn’t for me. Remember, I’m a recovering ‘Justice …
Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing
I’m a worrier. Like certified, diagnosed, worrier. As I’ve gotten older and a little bit wiser I’ve become less of a worrier and more accepting of Matthew 6:24. Occasionally though I still have bouts of complete and utter panic. A big trigger…change. Monday both of my babies started new schools. The little one left a daycare …
Tunnel Vision
At least once a day I find myself saying to one of my kiddos, ‘Stay-focused’. It rolls off my tongue so regularly that I often don’t even realize I’m saying it. Until recently. As I’ve been on my walk with God I’ve found myself at times unable to focus. Not on the world around me…I …
#BOOM #POW #OUCH
I hate it when people tell me exactly what I need to hear. Ok, so maybe ‘hate’ is a bit of an exaggeration but I definitely cringe. It’s not because I think I know everything; it’s just that there’s truth to the old cliché ‘the truth hurts’. If you know my husband you probably wouldn’t …
I Woke up Like Dis (Flawless)
No I didn’t; I woke up looking and feeling like a hot mess. I put very little time and energy into my outside appearance and work hard, some days harder than others, to get the inside together. And I’m most definitely not flawless. As a matter of fact I’m full of flaws and on any given …
Who you calling FAT?!
Fat…it seems to be one of the smallest, yet most powerful words in the English language these days. Let me tell you a little something about being FAT. The first time Josephine called me fat I wanted to die. Like literally fall on the floor and die. After I took a deep breath I asked …