“Mommy, let’s color,” she would say and go get her plastic pencil box filled with crayons. I’d pull out construction paper or printer paper and other supplies and sit down at the table with her. She would stand or sit on her knees in the chair, lean on the table, and hold a worn-down crayon between chubby toddler fingers...
Read more"You are Beautiful"
Thank you to everyone who filled out the survey about Glimsen. One of my favorite comments to the question "How do you think I can improve Glimsen?" was this one...
Read moreNot Perfect, Just Right
As you may know, I’m celebrating the one-year anniversary of Glimsen this week. And if you’ve been around for a while, you probably aren’t surprised to see that chocolate was involved.
Our family’s schedule this summer has been unusually crazy, and...
Read moreIndependence Day
What is your most memorable Independence Day celebration?
Mine was a day that will live on in family folklore.
Read moreStrawberry Picking
Have you noticed that the fruit and vegetables of summer seem super-packed with color and flavor? They seem to hold all the goodness of the season inside. For me, strawberries are the quintessential summer essential...
Read moreThe Only Good Snake
Standing on the deck, breathing the fresh air, and admiring my purple petunias, my eyes caught some movement on the driveway. Is that…? I gasped. A snake! A long, slithery, black snake was sunning itself on my driveway like he owned the place...
Read moreNone Too Pleased
It was a making-memories kind of day. My sister and I took our girls to Callaway Gardens to the Cecil B. Day Butterfly Center...
Read moreOh, Wow!
She stood next to me in the dining room, wearing a red top, black striped pants, and white leather shoes smaller than my hand. "Here," she said, resting a colorful set of nesting plastic cups on my knee...
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