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Keepin’ It Real {The Price of Saving Face}
So, on a lighter note from my previous Help-Me-I-Might-Explode-Post, here’s a true account from my week . . . Just a few days ago, I was crammed into a sawng-taw on my way home from Thai Language Class. It was afternoon-tropics-hot. It was stop-and-go-after-school-traffic. It was too-many-cars-and-motorbikes-fumes. It was five-people-too-many-people-in-the-elevator. And I was practicing my [...]
Continue reading...Hula Hoop: Destined for Greatness
Saturday, May 22, 2010
I was standing with the girls at Breanna’s House the other day. We were chatting in their rooms as they were getting ready for bed. Several of them were gathered around me, one girl said something in Thai, and they all immediately nodded affirmation. Dark hands touched my waist and made the “hourglass” figure in [...]
Continue reading...Quiet . . . Dangit.
Monday, May 10, 2010
I have a confession to make. And don’t tell my kids who I lecture about reading more, but I have become a bit of a media-junkie. Gasp. I know, I know, “readers are leaders” and all that, but I must admit that before we moved across the ocean I watched 24 on Monday nights and Glee [...]
Continue reading...An Honest Observation
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
“Mom, why is your hair two different colors?” he asked while we were sitting on the couch yesterday. “What do ya mean?” “Well, the top part is black,” and he points a pudgy finger to my roots, “and the bottom part is like white or yellow,” he concludes, flipping my ends. “That’s really funny.” I [...]
Continue reading...Mac-and-Cheese Throwdown
Friday, December 4, 2009
I loathe grocery shopping–especially with three small children. If I were rich, I would hire somebody else to do it. If I were smart, I would leave the kids at home and go alone, but since I am neither, I continue to endure the self-inflicted torture weekly. Case in Point. Last week as we were [...]
Continue reading...Hot Tip for Pre-Dinner Craziness
Thursday, December 3, 2009
If you are anything like me, the 15 minutes before any meal can bring out the worst in dear ol’ mom. Maybe it’s that I am a rotten planner or a crappy organizer or an unmotivated cook, but the pre-dinner craziness gets me nearly every time. The toddler tripping me in the kitchen, siblings fighting over who gets [...]
Continue reading...“Not Excited Anymore”
Sunday, November 29, 2009
“Mom, I’m excited about Christmas because the point is the presents,” he says with hopeful eyes, thinking about a rock guitar and a new Hot Wheels track.“Well, actually, ” I declare, “the point of Christmas is that Jesus was born as a baby.” Face falls. Eyes squint. Sigh escapes. Voice hardens. “Well, then,” he huffs angrily, [...]
Continue reading...From Soup to Pie
Monday, October 26, 2009
(I started this the week before Matt left and brought it out to finish this afternoon.) The Soup. All I wanted was to make soup. Harvest soup. A unique, healthy recipe I attempt only once a year. And in the brief snatches of time between meetings, Matt took the kids outside to play so I could [...]
Continue reading...Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder . . . and it’s only day one
Monday, October 19, 2009
I love that I was Matt Parker’s date to senior prom, and I’m glad that our first (of many) kisses took place on a beach. I love that I knew him when he was bald and bearded, and that he is the only man in the world who would spend two hours to pull my [...]
Continue reading...Heroes
Monday, September 28, 2009
“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.” Ralph Waldo Emerson “There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity [...]
Continue reading...Cade Rocks the Recorder
Monday, September 21, 2009
We have been working hard the last several weeks on a musical emphasis. Cade has picked up an interest in the recorder, a manageable instrument for a little person. We have gotten him lessons, and he has put in a quite a bit of time to master most of the notes. Watch his finger work as you [...]
Continue reading...Ken Lee
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Since I am a bit slow in catching up with modern pop-culture, I just discovered a new wave sweeping the Youtube and blog world called FailBlog. It’s a collection of glorified America’s Funniest Home Video-ish moments. The following are my two favorite “fails” I’ve seen thus far . . . Enjoy. And Laugh. Please. Number One: [...]
Continue reading...Good Parenting
Saturday, September 5, 2009
A play-by-play of the excellent parenting exhibited in our household as evidenced in our “campout” on the trampoline tonight (which lasted from 5:30pm until the ever-late 7:03pm). 1. Jump around on the trampoline with our favorite stuffed animals amid piles of sleeping bags and blankets. 2. Four-year-old son hits Dad on the head with his [...]
Continue reading...Trip of Terror
Sunday, August 2, 2009
My sister Amy and her husband Will (above with Kelty) have been visiting for the last several days. We have had an amazing time so far–fly fishing, shopping, dinners out, lots of laughing, sightseeing, and games on the trampoline. We decided to further enhance our Colorado experience by driving to the top of Pikes Peak [...]
Continue reading...“Peaceness”
Monday, May 11, 2009
This was the state of our kitchen table one morning last week. Like the organized and responsible mother I am (ah-hem), I waited until Thursday morning to put together Mother’s Day Cards for the mothers in our lives. It went, like most things, far from perfectly. Ava found a box of staples and pulled them [...]
Continue reading...Kickin’ the Preacher
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Lest any of you get the wrong impression of our kids’ behavior from my last posted ideas for “character training,” let me share a story that happened about an hour ago. On our way out of church, Cassie and I were wrestling the three children out the door to the parking lot. Cassie was holding [...]
Continue reading...More Compassion for Charlie Brown
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Christmas Tree Collage(click to enlarge) For the first time since leaving the land of the Frasier fir Christmas tree farms in the South, the Parker family headed out into the National Forest of the Pikes Peak region to hunt down the perfect tree. Now, this was quite an experience on Saturday for several reasons. To [...]
Continue reading...A Classic Recipe
Friday, October 31, 2008
Enjoy this recipe that we tried this morning. It’s a classic that’s been handed down in our family for generations. Classic Cinnamon Toast 1. Butter bread. 2. Mix sugar and cinnamon in a bowl. 3. Sprinkle sugar/cinnamon mixture over the bread. 4. Broil (because its much faster then just setting the oven to 350) for [...]
Continue reading...Crapade
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Photo Album Moments. Sweet and serene picture of the two older kids, isn’t it? Photo-album worthy as it is, I am learning that my reality is not all precious gerber baby snapshots. We love that part in the movie “Just Married” where the Dad tells Ashton Kutcher’s character that life is not made up of [...]
Continue reading...Everything I Needed to Know I Learned From Little House on the Prairie
Monday, October 6, 2008
We grew up in a household with limited television viewing. We could only watch a handful of shows. Of them, I remember “The A-Team”(somehow B.A. and Faceman made it past my mom’s moral barometer), “Tarzan” (with the real people, not the cartoon), and lots and lots of Little House on the Prairie. If one of [...]
Continue reading...WELCOME
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