How would you react to such a sweet gift?
For the record, you should never do anything in front of children that you might find embarrassing when talked about in front of adults. When we go on vacation, I like to hunt down the town’s best specialty bakery. I have a tendency to buy two flavors of cupcakes at a time because it just
Untangle your tinsel
Have you ever had to draw a hard line with the “tinsel” in your life? You know, those little, seemingly harmless things that quickly take more than their fair share of attention? I sometimes think I have to jump in and fix every subtle snag in my life before it gets completely out of control,
Showing up with kindness helps soften the blow
Sometimes it’s not the first blow that knocks us down, it’s the second or the third. We can hold it together for the initial bad news, but all too quickly comes a totally unrelated problem that causes us to come unglued. I think they call that the straw that broke the camel’s back. Jolene Rohde
Help for the spinning head
Sometimes my head spins. How about yours? It’s not yet 9am and already I’ve worried whether my child has strep, how many mice might be living in my house, if I’m doing enough to support my friends, and how long my parents will live. My head seems to be extra spinny these days. (And yes,
Kindness rewrites people’s stories
We never really know what someone’s going through, do we? The clerk at the grocery store who stands on her feet all day and then goes home to take care of an ailing parent. The teacher who pours lessons of kindness and sharing into beautiful little hearts and then realizes she’s been sharing her husband
What to do when they drive you nuts
If you spend any time giving thanks with other people this week, you’re going to run into a lot of things that make you feel less than thankful. For instance, you create this fabulous dinner and then all the small children in the room ask if they can have chicken nuggets. Or maybe one member
The perfect love story is always filled with kindness
I’m a sucker for a Hallmark movie. Love is in the air when the owner of a small-town bakery falls for the big-city developer who intends to shut her down, but then has a change of heart and sweeps in to save the building from demolition. Somebody hand me a bucket of popcorn and a
