When I graduated from college nine years ago, I didn’t even have a cell phone. iPads were just a twinkle in Steve Jobs’ eye, having a hotmail email address was acceptable, and we still used the term “answering machine.” The glut of devices, social media sites, and other bright and shiny distractions today comes with some challenges. It’s not the technology. Any two year old can navigate […]
Category: Life Lessons
Compromise or Sacrifice? – On Marital Bliss
About a year ago, Scott took care of the girls for two days and I flew to Philadelphia for my friend’s wedding. Of our group of five best girl friends from high school, I was the first married and the other girls came and supported me on my big day. Eight years had come and gone and another one of […]
Developing a Love for Reading Aloud in Your Family
Reading great books together is a part of our young family’s culture and I get asked fairly regularly how I get my kids to “sit still and pay attention” for chapter books. Here are my top 5 tips: Start early. My first two children vary a great deal in the length of their attention span, but from the time they […]