My mom taught me to teach babies to use stairs as soon as they were mobile. Before my husband and I had stairs of our own, my mom would take our first child, and then our second, and lovingly and slowly show them how to go down (feet first) and up the stairs at my…

Theresa: “Well, then I’m never eating my dinner.”Immediately after saying this, she picked up her fork and finished everything on her plate. Bernadette: “Mommy, do you know who has a lighthouse?”Me: “Who?”Bernadette: “God does. It is the moon and the stars.”

A few months ago, as my children and I were strolling through Michael’s they started to talk about whiskey. I was mortified and told them to stop talking. After leaving the store, I asked them where they had heard about it. They informed me that Captain Haddock drinks it. I told them it was not…

Late Saturday afternoon, Bernadette called me crying. She said she wanted to come home. My heart was breaking, but I did my best to cheer her up. All I really wanted to do was jump in the car and go get her. It took a lot of prayer to keep me from driving over two…

Our two oldest daughters are away from us for the first time this weekend (with the exception of when I have had a baby). They are spending the weekend with their grandparents in Ocean Shores. They were very excited to leave yesterday; however, last night they called us approximately 10 times. They called again first…

What can I say? Some children have a blankie; my son has a red dirt devil (his mother’s favorite color). Oh and by the way, no one better take that vacuum away from him or try putting it in the closet when he is around or the culprit will hear a first class temper tantrum…

I am going to try to: 1. Pray more and regularly thank God for all the blessings in my life2. Be more attentive and loving to my husband3. Be more gentle with my children (despite the fact that my oldest daughter already thinks I am a softy) and go back to playing with them each…

Dear God, Thank you for the wonderful gifts you have given me in my husband and my children. Please help them to always know how much I love and appreciate them. I couldn’t help but marvel at the miracle of a growing baby on August 25 when Patrick inadvertently took two steps to me. He…