Ever After Story Time

Almost anyone you ask from my childhood would tell you I was a pretty good kid that didn't get in a lot of trouble, was polite, respectful and so on.  The truth is, like most of us, I did some things I absolutely regret.  Today on Pink Shirt Day, where we stand against bullying I reflect on both my childhood being bullied and in turn bullying.  I think sometimes we let bullying slide because it's viewed as normal to the situation.  "Kids will be kids", "That's what siblings do", and similar lines justifying a harmful reality.   I say this...

Today is Family Day and I was thinking about writing about one of our many stories as a family but we try to be real about our lives and I think it is fitting to share a bit of reality.  The reality is social media tends to be that everyone's life seems perfect or an absolute mess.  We try to simply share the truth and let you see the perfect and the mess.  I used to be a pastor and one of the most common things people believed was that they were the only one dealing with a certain issue....

Children make us see how quickly time passes because in the period of a few decades a human being goes from completely helpless to full fledged adults who are still helpless in many ways.  My son turns 18 tomorrow and it got me thinking about that moment he was born.  If you have never witnessed a birth you are missing out but yet also very fortunate.  I often describe it as the most beautiful horrific thing you will ever see.  The truth is births can vary quite drastically as I can attest being present for all five of my children's...

It has been a whirlwind Fall for our family to say the least with mixture of good and bad.  Here is a quick snapshot of just this past weekend; two kids with colds, we worked around 30 hours for the business, I ran a dog to the vet after eating chicken bones and bleeding, I also had a kid at the hospital after they fainted, our youngest may have picked up pinworms and today is Lisa's birthday.  Make sure you take a moment and wish her a happy birthday. Despite all the chaos, which amazingly has not even been the...

There have been a lot of posts lately about the dangers of kids and technology.  Biggest danger of kids and technology in my childhood was sticking pointy objects in the plugs.  Having five kids we understand the reality of modern technology, oh too much.  I would love to say we have it all figured out and have no issue with it but that would be a bold faced lie.  And if you have taken the time to read this then I wouldn't want to break our trust as author and reader.  Our kids definitely spend their fair share of time...