This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.
This summer, we began the great rite of passage that is campus tours. Our daughter took her very first tour in June. A lovely admissions officer named Katie introduced us to the University of Colorado at Boulder, and an equally lovely (though slightly confused) young woman named Dani showed us around. My daughter’s 15-year-old ego was suitably unimpressed.
“What did you think?” [Read more…]
It’s a Tuesday and an unexpected day at home due to an early power outage. My schoolteacher husband is here along with my kids, so “working” from home is, well, a challenge.
I rouse my family for lunch and then declare it tidy-time, i.e. pick-up-your-dirty-socks time, and I volunteer to clean the kitchen. By the time I’m finishing, I feel some pressure to get back to “work”—Christmas is coming, after all.
“All done,” I declare to myself with satisfaction, until my daughter wanders through the room. [Read more…]
