• once upon a time I painted a mural

    Our three boys share a bedroom; they have shared since the youngest was a year old. The thing is – the boys just keep getting bigger! The room is about 10’x11′, basically the size of 3 twin mattresses. We’ve been wanting to give them some…

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  • seasons change – thankfully!

    Kids grow up, which means parents constantly enter new phases of life. It seems like just when you get one phase figured out, you enter a new one. You can’t get comfortable long (or ever) as a parent.  I’m so thankful for the constant change.…

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  • both art and artists

    I attempted to teach the kids a few basics of using my potter’s wheel. We went over a couple beginner essentials, but then I let them just get a feel for the clay spinning. It was beautifully strange to watch them using my college ceramic…

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  • making a list {joy robbers}

    Stirring oatmeal and jotting down a list in my notebook, my daughter walked up and asked me what I was writing. A few moments earlier I was thinking about how the same things rob my joy over and over again. Why do I let that…

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