Family

I have five free hours I didn’t realize I would have. I blocked off all of my slots of clients today to attend my eldest son’s first debate tournament.  I couldn’t wait to see him in action! Ian [...]

The previous blogs were hot off the press, some not even posted, when I had an I-want-to-pull-my-hair-out incident with Ian, our middle schooler.  After the big pep talk of how close he was to [...]

In my last blog, I explained how we can’t help our loved ones alone  as I told the story about my middle schooler.  To help us, during Ian’s IEP (Individual Education Plan) the deaf itinerant [...]

Our response to our son Ian’s entrance  into middle school provides another good example of being your kids’ P.A.R.A.   In Paying Attention (the first two steps),  I observed the impact of his [...]

Being a P.A.R.A. means 1) Paying Attention, 2) Responding, and 3) Arranging; it’s the Mary at the Wedding of Cana approach to relationships.  The story about my daughter’s gymnastics team [...]

Differing parenting styles can still produce great kids.  I subscribe to the “Mary at the wedding of Cana” approach, as a beautifully feminine and engaged method of problem-solving and parenting [...]

This week I ride down the wave of our Wichita State University Shockers climbing the NCAA brackets all the way to the Final Four. Their only loss was by four points to the Louisville Cardinals, [...]

Bringing our uglies into the light begins to dismantle the hold our vices have on us.  Opening our chest of less than stellar moments encourages others to do the same.  My vices of impatience and [...]

Two snow days on each end sandwiching a weekend proved to be an ideal experimental bubble on the effects of screen time on our family.  I had been cracking down on our boundary of an hour a day [...]

Swim team and gymnastics overlap the setup and start of my five-week talk at the Spiritual Life Center. But there’s no problem to that—we have Mrs. Lana.  Mrs. Lana is a godsend, five-star [...]