Category: familyness

Me: Hey, Dude, I need some napkins to take to church. Kid 4 (age 6): How many? Me: I don’t want to take the nice ones. I want those other ones. Kid 4: What do they look like? Me: I don’t know how to explain. I’ll go look in the basement. Kid 4: I’ll go.

You know when there’s that thing that falls into the Doing The Right Thing category? I wish I were more gracious about it. But I’m trying. And I’m doing – and even with a smile. I have a very small original family (Dad has one brother, Mom’s an only child) and a very large current

… The house to feel so empty without the two teenage girls, who left this morning for a week at camp. … To have to practice the piano quite so much, when it’s Kids 3 and 4 who are taking the lessons. … To feel such a jolt of the new-baby joy on behalf of

Well, keeps beginning, I guess. It’s Family Reunion time. Want to know what that means? Here are my parents, Grandma and Grandpa. They are cute and wonderful and as frugal as can be. All good things. Here are my sibs: J, M, M, N, (then me), B, M, E, M, and J. They (we) are

Why am I so easily satisfied with my own efforts, and so little satisfied with anyone else’s? I am tough on my kids. They are bright, capable, competent people. And I’m maybe a little demanding. I’m letting that slide, just a little, these days. I don’t want to live forever in their memories as the

It’s been sixteen years. That’s a really long time. Sixteen years is how long I lived with my Mom before she died. Sixteen years is how long I was in school. And sixteen years is how long I’ve been married (as of tomorrow) to the greatest Husband in the whole world. He likes me, did

Hey, Kids: This just in. New favorite board game at the Wilhites’? Personal Scrabble. You’ve probably seen Bananagrams (which makes me giggle with its cleverness) and other packaged Scrabble-type games, but here’s the drill, if you don’t know it: Put all the letter tiles face down on the table. Put the board away, because you