Tenderheart and other Care Bears

A little while ago I wrote about my son getting braces. He was nervous, and to make him feel better, I wrote him a story about a kid whose braces saved the day. He thought it was funny. Then I posted about losing the baseball championship. Both of these things were...

Learning to be a Loser

That title caught your attention, didn’t it? This subject has been on my mind for about a week now. My son’s little league baseball team made it to the championship game. They had a slow start to the beginning of the season. A few losses, many games...

Raising a Tween

My son got braces last week. It was the beginning of the end for him. All week, he’d been acting weird. Sad. And I couldn’t get him to tell me what was going on until the night he got the braces on. When I tucked him in, he was upset, and my motherly...