You wake up on a sunny, Saturday morning and prepare to go on your paper route, optimistic that today is the day that all will run smoothly and life will sail along at a beautiful pace. Then just as you are gathering up your three children, along with the two nieces who spent the night, one of them cries out,… View Post

If you’ve read this column for any length of time you know that I am not an outdoorsy, nature-type person.  Nature includes animals.  I own them because as the mother of three children and the wife of a farmer wannabe, I have no choice. But the more hard-earned money I spend on critter necessities, and the more I find myself doing things… View Post

This week hubby is on a business trip to Belize, Central America.  Our teenaged daughter and her friend Bethany went along with him.  While hubby works, the girls will be spending a night with the natives and attending a local high school, gaining all sorts of interesting cultural experiences. It is no small thing for two homeschooled girls from Indiana to spend… View Post

As the old saying goes, boys will be boys.  Unfortunately, some folks let boys do whatever they darn well please with no discipline.  Others think the saying is nonsense and allow absolutely no foolishness whatsoever. I believe if you don’t discipline a child you are serving him a grave injustice.  However, a boy needs to have the freedom to be himself, to learn… View Post

Sometimes as you go through life every thing is running along smoothly and then suddenly you realize that the most absurd things are happening around you.  Last week I was mowing grass with our new riding mower and enjoying the solitude that is afforded by the fact that it’s so loud I can’t hear anything going on around me. Unfortunately, I… View Post

(Disclaimer: If you thought my colon cleansing article was in “poor taste”, you might want to skip to the next article. However, boys between the ages of 10 and 12 will totally appreciate the following “potty” humor.) Hubby was informed by his doctor that he needs to start taking blood pressure medicine, but he’s not quite willing to make that… View Post