Sometimes I feel small. When I hear about huge problems like human trafficking, child abuse and global hunger, I just feel small. Those problems are like giants, they are huge. What could I possibly do that would even make a drop in the bucket?
Maybe you feel the same way. But what if we all put our one single tiny little ... Read More
Did you know there is a Carrot Cake Day? Yep. It was Feb. 3. There is also Hedgehog Day (not to be confused with Groundhog Day), Homemade Soup Day, and my personal favorite, Gumdrop Day, which happens to be today.
Once you have those on your calendar, I hope you’ll add just one more: Monday is Random Acts of Kindness Day. ... Read More
Sometimes these kindness stories fall into my lap, and sometimes I have to dig a little. The story this week is a combination of both. What I uncovered during my digging took an already great act of kindness (that had fallen into my lap) and turned it into a priceless conversation that left me with way more than I had ... Read More
I was doing my daily mom carpool recently when my 3-year-old son, Ben, piped up from the back seat.
“Mom, what does yannoy mean?”
Yannoy? My brain started turning over every word in Webster’s dictionary trying to figure out what Yannoy means.
“Yannoy, Ben?”
“No! Annoy, Mom. What does annoy mean?”
As I used words, like bother and bug, to help him grasp the concept ... Read More
