"If you have a message of encouragement for the people, please speak." Acts 13:15
Posted in Happenings, Humor, family on Mar 25th, 2010
Branson, phone in (shaky!) hand, filmed this. Check out where all four of my dancing, jumping, light-saber wielding kids end up. At my desk. But – if you’re gonna have four kids around while working, they’re pretty darn cute ones.
Posted in Happenings, Humor, Reflection, family on Dec 30th, 2009
The snow flurries grew larger and larger until the flakes covered our yard. The drizzling rain-turned-snow made me want to pull the curtains closed, light a roaring fire, and settle in for a quiet evening. Instead, I glanced at my watch and calculated what needed to happen in the next forty-five minutes to get the [...]
Posted in Happenings, Humor, family on Oct 23rd, 2009
Sunlight filtered through our open car windows while a brisk breeze swooped crimson and golden leaves in merry-go-round circles on the asphalt. The day’s brilliant conditions ushered in excitement for the emergence of Fall. But all was not quite so sunny in our car as we sat parked in front of our church last Friday [...]
Posted in Happenings, Humor, family on Mar 15th, 2009
Evidently, I’m nicer without a voice. At least according to Hudson. In his kindest, most sincere way, he told me yesterday, “Mommy, you’re nicer when you can’t talk.” It’s been nearly 48 hours since I’ve spoken or sang or yelled or whispered. After Friday’s vocal cord surgery, my family has clearly enjoyed a quieter house [...]
Posted in Happenings, Humor, Reflection, family, school on Sep 22nd, 2008
Years ago, after moving to Fort Worth, our friend Chris Wolfe would stop by to visit and ask me, “Hey TJ, what did you do today?” I gently taught him early on that you don’t ask a stay-at-home mom, “What did you do today?” It’s like asking a pregnant woman how much weight she’s gained. [...]
Posted in Happenings, Humor, family on Jul 17th, 2008
The month of May and the first half of June proved an absolute whirlwind for the Wilsons: closing the the school year and baseball and field days and ballet recitals and school plays and end-of-the-year parties of every sort… and did I mention baseball? My response to the overload was a two-hour venting session with [...]
Posted in Happenings, Humor, family on May 14th, 2008
Hello again! Hoping my blogging activity rekindles as baseball season dwindles. But what a fun season is has been!So it’s a little scary to post something after a period of inactivity, but this should do the trick. I can’t not post this. Creativity emerges in our house with me on a 40-min Apple Support phone [...]
Posted in Happenings, Humor, family on Mar 9th, 2008
Corbin took Basden Easter dress shopping last week. Ever since, we have had a miniature bride traipsing around our home.Check out the satin buttons running down the back.Corbin swears he tried to steer her other directions, but evidently once Basden locked her eyes on the bride dress there was no going back. And in Corbin [...]
This morning the girls took a long bath. I took advantage of their preoccupation to put away laundry and straighten up the kids’ rooms a bit. After 40 minutes of splashing and pretending, the girls hesitantly got out and dried off. While drying Basden’s long blonde hair and smearing her body with yummy-smelling lotion, I [...]
Branson walked into the kitchen the other day and found me bent over my laptop. “What are you doing, Mom?”“Writing a story, B.”“Is it for your blog thing?”“Yep.”“If I write a story will you put it on your blog?”“Yep.”10 minutes later the rough (& final) draft landed on my desk. So…here ya go, Bran. Keep [...]