I know you all think I dropped the glass slipper as I was running out of the ball but the truth is, I was running away from the ball and that darn shoe was slowing me down so I flicked it off.  A glass slipper?  Really, fairy godmother?  I don’t think Jimmy Choo would even go that far. Had I known the… View Post

You want to know which verse in the Bible makes me the most annoyed?  It’s the one about Mary storing all those memories in her heart.  I don’t know where it is in the Bible.  New Testament, for sure, and I think it’s somewhere after she finds out she’s going to have a baby. But Mary keeping all those thoughts… View Post

Homework over hot chocolate and marshmallows, afternoons still warm enough to draw our friends outside (that’s Bear), eating homegrown (well, school grown) lettuce in Garden Club, making Cinderella cookies and wearing Cinderella masks (“Cinderella’s my favorite because she’s blue”), decorating leaves for fall (I was told some of these leaves are “superhero leaves”), getting ready to turn in my first packet… View Post

We were in Frederick last Saturday for their annual early trick-or-treating fest. (That’s not really what it’s called.  Fellow DCers, if you haven’t made the trip out to Frederick during one of these things, I highly recommend you put it on your calendar for next year.  There’s haunted houses, there’s candy, there’s dancing in the streets.  It’s a blast.  Here’s… View Post

WARNING: If you’ve read on “Notes from Naptime,” my post about caterpillars and you didn’t like it, don’t read this one. Last week, the girls and I were getting out of the car when Harper spotted a chipmunk on the sidewalk. She yelled, “Chipmunk!” ran up to it, and it didn’t scurry away like most do.  Hadley went to see… View Post