When talking to your child who is spending the week at Grandmas: "Are you ready to come home?" "Do you miss me?" "I...

"I didn't like the ups and downs, mommy," said my boy after landing in Newport News. Safe in his grandma's arms, he called...

Faith has learned an important lesson. It's better to give than to receive. Well maybe not really "better" than getting presen...

I'm sure Misty's little Daniel is going to have a blast as a big boy all by himself on an airplane. After our recent vacation I aske...

I've made an apparently controversial parenting decision. Later this month, Daniel will fly, unaccompanied, to my mother's in Virgin...

Forget about the "are we there yet" question. Faith hasn't even left for a trip to visit her cousins and she is already counti...

I hear a lot of moms bemoan bedtime. "It's so hard to get Susie and Johnny into bed at night! They have a dozen excuses for getting...

In a takeoff of the ParentCenter "Bad Parent" series in which perants confess their bad behavior, I'm sharing my mea culpa fro...

I seem to be on a little motherhood vacation. Faith has been going to Vacation Bible School with a friend each night this week. Because her ...

I read with a little bit of horror both the news story about State Superintendent Kathy Cox requesting that local school districts push back...

If you are like me, you aer always looking for something to help you become a better mom. As I am raising Daniel, this one caught my attenti...

After promising to check on the free summer movies, which took some time, I finally found a reference written by my colleague Rodney Manley ...

In the heat of Friday afternoon, Faith and I ducked into the cool movie theatre and caught "Kung Fu Panda." Wow. It seems to be a ...

On Faith's first day of school, I had to go to the fabric store to buy material for a wedding present. She left me to go look at pattern...

Faith's standardized test report card gives me reason to celebrate and hang my head in shame. I don't mean I am ashamed of her, but ...

Liz's post about Mother's Day got me thinking about the change Daniel goes through when he hasn't had enough "mommy time....

This year's Mother's Day really flew by. My presents are still wrapped on the table in the dining room. After tornadoes ripped throu...

Last week I found out Six Flags has dropped their prices for the 2008 season. Something about offsetting the price of gas, what my understan...

The late afternoon and evening calm as been broken by the sound of the doorbell on recent nights. As our house is up a hill, it's rare s...

Maybe it's because Daniel and I spend so much time in the car, but I am rabid about car-seat safety. It's the one thing that's l...