If You Give a Mom a Moment

The boys started school today.  All of us were ready for school to start - me most of all.  Kaitlyn is asleep, and I've got a sink full of dishes to attend to.  But I have the freedom to sit here and type a blog post without having to worry about any...

(I wasn't going to tell this story, since the business involved did their very best to resolve the problem, but I figured someone reading this might be able to learn from our mistake.)
A couple of weeks ago, we took our family to a local bowling alley.  The boys have only been bowling once or twice in their lives, and Kaitlyn had never been.  This place has a summer special going on, where on weekdays from 11-2 you can bowl for free...

After the ups come the downs, right?  Sigh. (See last post for the "up.")
So, I don't know about you, but it seems to me that sometimes something "bad" happens (as I perceive it), and I feel like I am hanging on to life (sometimes just barely), but then something else really small happens that just topples me over the edge...

Fear.
Fear has been the driving force behind most, if not all, of the major decisions in my life.  When I graduated high school, I went to the university in my hometown because I was scared to move away from home.  I was terrified to get married, but I knew...