Only a month into the new year, and 2026 has made it pretty clear that she isn’t here to play. The headlines are heartbreaking, and while our family’s trials are no match ...

How was your December? Ours was a whirlwind, and also wonderful (minus the whack-a-mole game we were playing with illness in our home all month). I’m recapping the month a day early ...

When it comes to the controversial topic of when it’s okay to start celebrating Christmas, ours is a house divided. I’m in the mid-November camp: don’t get me wrong, I love Thanksgiving, ...

Last week, my kids and I were playing on the playground at our YMCA when a woman in her fifties came over to talk. She’d spotted the kids’ matching Sports Day t-shirts ...

I am not sure if I actually lived the month of September or simply free-fell through it. We are in what is possibly the busiest season our family has EVER experienced, and ...

August was a big month for our family: we celebrated a milestone birthday; got underway with some new ventures (a Classical Conversations community for the family, and American Heritage Girls for Kali ...

July brought unfathomable tragedy to many Texans, including some just miles from my home. It feels wrong to keep on with life as usual when life has changed or even ended for ...

My three big kids spent the night at their grandparents’ house last Friday. This was a near-first for all of us: other than the one night Luke and I spent in the ...