String o' Pearls

I found this not-quite-ready post in my archives, and I decided to finish and publish it today.  Because I'm on a roll here!  I go silen...

I am a boy mom. A very happy, totally fulfilled boy mom. God gave me five sons, no daughters, and I can say with complete honesty that I nev...

It's been two months since I posted anything here.  2011 me doesn't even recognize 2024 me!  When this blog was in its infancy, I us...

I am late with my Mother's Day post, but that's about par for the course for me these days! We had such a special celebration last S...

These boys. I can’t believe that I was their first home, that these five very large, amazing humans once lived in me.  And now, five pieces ...

This is kind of an addendum to yesterday’s post.  Just a quickie. As my husband and I boarded the plane last night for the first flight of o...

And a SURPRISE! We have developed a wonderful tradition during the five years we’ve been in VA: our boys who live locally pick a night to co...

Last Saturday the four sons who live in VA came over to our house to celebrate an early Mother's Day with me. (I like to call it a ...

In my last post , I discussed how dangerous the comparison game can be: how it can rob us of peace and tranquility, making us feel inadequat...

I just got back home yesterday, after spending five days staying at the house of son #4 and his wife, Braveheart.  I went over there because...