I admit, I have been avoiding this as much as I try to avoid handwashing a sink full of grease-stained and moldy, macaroni and cheese-crusted dishes, and this time, I am not talking about having to change my two year old’s poop-stained diapers. Believe it or not, I get frustrated with making New Year’s Resolutions. [...]
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Four A.M. Affections of a Two-Year-Old
I know that my little Arthur loves me and that I am the center of his little two-year-old world. For no other will he give wet, soggy puppy dog kisses that seem to linger even after I have wiped the saliva off my face. Only to me will he cling, wrapping his little body around [...]
Time Slipped Past Me
Come this New Year, it will be ten years since my father-in-law passed away. As the world turns and the days pass by from year to year, my husband and I continue to miss him. He was a wonderful, caring, and loving man, and words still cannot express how we felt that horrific day that [...]
Sixth Sense
I listened and held my breath as Arthur screamed at the top of his not so tiny two-year-old lungs. I had the sense that they were at it again, my two-year-old and my four-year-old. “Shae! Shae!” Arthur yelled at Rayner.
I put down the greasy, glass dish that I was just about to wash (by hand [...]
Highway Hassles
Start…Stop….Start….Stop….Start…Stop….No, this wasn’t a fun game of musical chairs, nor was I fondly trying to fix a long-lost treasured but broken video tape. Instead, I was stuck in Dallas/Fort Worth traffic while trying to complete a number of errands before heading to my brother’s college graduation ceremony. Having lived most of my driving career in [...]
An Abnormal Assessment
Last week, my daughter sat for three laborious hours filling out the tiny bubbles to a mandatory eighth grade career assessment that she really did take seriously. Being a somewhat ambitious child (one of my few ones), she truly wanted to know what type of career she would be best suited for. By the time [...]
Objections of an Unemployed Educator
For the past four weeks, my dumb dishwasher has been out. Imagine having to wash 200 dishes by hand each day! That’s 1400 dishes each week, 6020 dishes each month, and 72,240 dishes in a year! Unbelievable? Yes, but when you live in a large family such as ours, it is not impossible (especially when [...]
The “People Spirit” Stories
The shadows created by the flickering flames of the fire danced like ghostly visitors within the confines of the bamboo-and-straw-made Hmong home. Outside, evening covered the village with her dark embrace. The cool blackness, illuminated only by the the twinkling stars and a thin sliver of moonlight, heightened the eeriness of the night. The straw-covered [...]
Joy is Made of Rubbermaid
As I stared blankly into the gray and white “new post” screen on my Wordpress dashboard, searching for something to write about, my mind began to wander desperately. I thought about what to send for Kal’s and Wayne’s school Christmas parties. I thought about what I was going to do if Arthur’s cough didn’t go [...]
