Confessions of a Clay Pot

We recently rented A League of their Own to watch with the family.   It was an instant hit with our daughters.   I love that movie, because...

It’s not just Oreos, either.   Sometimes I sneak ice cream into the freezer and stash it behind the asparagus.   If there are any Zingers to...

I love how whenever a child ends up in a mishap and the parent finds themself answering to a news reporter, whether the child was lost at th...

In the fabulous juggling act of life, I’ve been dropping a few balls lately.   To say that I’ve let the summer get away from me is an unders...

As I mentioned in a blog entry last summer, I don’t have much to contribute to the church softball team; with a new baby, I’m worth even les...

With every passing year, the list of forbidden and required behaviors grows longer. I can just imagine the Happy Days remake where Fonzie ...

It is a tremendous blessing that I have a large extended family. I have dozens of first cousins, beloved aunts and uncles, and grandparents ...

No one ever reads the Little House books and says, "I'd like to be Mary Ingalls." Aside from the fact that she went blind and ...

When I was a kid, I thought the Bunkers were my grandparents. Literally. During my early childhood, on my parents’ TV each week, they appear...

It offered free uniforms, on-the-job training, and a complimentary pop whenever I wandered in – beat that! They said in my first training se...

The deck needed to be freshened up. We had a day and a half without rain in the forecast, but we were pretty sure we could get it done in on...

I’ve been noticing a new crop of ponytailed cuties all over the place this spring. I am a huge fan of ponytails on little girls and I have t...

My husband and I have started feeling our age in the last couple of years. When we got a church softball league going last summer, and found...

I’m a TV snob. While we do normally watch a vast array of programs, even that scandalous reality television is on our usual diet of boob-tu...

Since starting my maternity leave, we’ve managed to get the girls to church all of four times; all Wednesdays, never on a Sunday. And that’s...

I knew going into it that caring for a newborn again was going to test the very limits of my endurance. Anyone who says they get “baby fever...

Nothing inspires my evolutionary inferiority complex more than cockroaches. They’ve got survival perfected. They can live anywhere, and surv...

The lie was (b).  I actually have never gotten a speeding ticket, let alone two on one trip.  However, I cannot say that I never deserved on...

So, in honor of April Fool’s Day, I thought about confessing something horrible and then saying April Fool’s at the end. But then I thought ...

Heading into the week of Spring Break, it looked like our family was about to turn a huge corner. In very similar fashion to how things prog...