My Funnies

When my family left the Puget Sound behind, we promised our daughters a trampoline to ease the trauma of moving. My husband for the first time in his life became his own...

I met my husband when we were teenagers. He was a year older and already had been sworn into the United States Navy. A year-and-a-half later, we were a couple on our...

My oldest daughter has followed in her dad’s footsteps and become a soccer player. She plays for strictly recreational purposes. We believe that running, learning a skill and working together as a...

My daughter has been patiently waiting for braces. For two years, our orthodontist and general dentist have been hoping she would lose these four stubborn baby teeth naturally. Unfortunately, her teeth didn’t cooperate the way...

As parents of toddlers, we are programmed to be in this natural state of survival mode. As moms we survived labor and delivery, we’ve dealt with breastfeeding, bottle-feeding, up all nights, sleep deprivation, colic, ear...

There is nothing I love more than taking my daughters to the river to swim. We have found a perfect swimming hole, with a sandy beach, a slow current and deep enough waters to...

My husband and I purchased a new truck with a full cab a few years ago. It was brand new, gleaming with black paint and precisely what our family needed. We had been envisioning...

My husband and I, aren’t the most conventional vacationers. We prefer the solitude of a private beach, a cabin deep in the woods, or an island far removed from civilization. Our kids have also...

My oldest daughter was quite the spitfire when she was younger. She was smart, practical and easily annoyed by other children her age.  She was a child who protected herself.  She seemed...

A few weeks ago, I had one of those crazy parent days. Everything seemed to go wrong. The kids had bad attitudes, they fought all day, the house was a mess and dinner ended...