Why I Had To Stop Worshipping God Because of Some Lunchmeat

In their defense, ham is delicious.

I have to tell you a story about what happened to me in church a few weeks ago, but before I do – I need to tell you another story first. [insert that harp-like wavy line TV show music here] My children love deli ham. Every time we go to the grocery store together, they [...]

Giving New Meaning to Passing the Hat

Oh. The Hat.

One of the best parts of any holiday break is when the children go back to school. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy hanging out with my kids – but being in the house with them for 3 weeks straight can get a little monotonous for all of us. Last week, my son GT decided [...]

My children review the movie ‘Titanic’

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Since it’s the winter break, and we’ve been spending SO much quality time together, I thought I’d give them a special treat and let them watch the movie “Titanic.” At least, I thought it was a special treat. Turns out my children have much higher expectations of cinema than I do. After the movie was [...]

Drastic Measures

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We were sitting at the table on Sunday morning, eating a big breakfast together as a family. As we went around the table, we each had a name a ride we were going to try at Disneyworld that we hadn’t ridden before. “I’m going to ride Maelstrom,” said TK. “What’s that?” asked GT “It’s the [...]

Nail salon

Not the best of looks for me.

I love going to my nail salon because I find it is often an rare exercise in candor – and humility. The lady that takes care of me is named C, and she’s Korean and welcomes the opportunity to talk to me because I’ll help her practice her English. At least, that’s what she tells [...]

Making a change

I’ve been throwing myself a bit of a pity party for the last 4 months, and a few weeks back I realized I was annoying even myself. It isn’t that life is any harder than it always is – it’s just that I was in my head too much, overthinking and overblaming myself. And those [...]

Period

We’ve been very open with our kids ever since they were around 5 years old when it comes to the birds and the bees. Not only do they know the right terminology for everything, but they have a basic grasp of how the whole reproduction thing works. So, imagine my surprise when I asked both [...]

Spanking

I have a general personal policy of not talking about polarizing topics on my blog. Today, I’m going to violate that policy to talk about how I feel about physical punishment as an acceptable parental discipline technique. In other words, I’m going to take a few moments to give you my personal opinions on – [...]

Tragedy

This morning, we awake to the sound of the tornado sirens going off in our neighborhood. As the children rubbed sleep from their eyes and shuffled into the laundry room with their pillow, TK and I set about trying to figure out if it was really happening. We opened the front door. Not a cloud [...]

Follow Your Dreams

One of my favorite moments from this weekend at BlogHer 11 was getting to listen to Indra Nooyi, the CEO of PepsiCo. One of the things she said (and I’m paraphrasing here) is that her mother always told her “to follow her dreams.” Inspired, I came back home after a long flight and hugged on [...]

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