A few days ago a friend of mine invited me to her church — a large, spectacular and impressive conglomerate of buildings and fun. From the moment the usher opened the door, the churchgoers welcomed us with friendly smiles and open arms. The place was impressive, with a coffee shop, (Starbucks coffee people!), a bookstore, [...]

2009 is supposed to be the year of the military family.
I know. It’s only the middle of May, there are many months ahead and great things can, and hopefully will be done, but I’m an inpatient person.
I actually worked on a story on what the year of the military family would mean and discovered [...]

Today I celebrated Easter with my five daughters. We went to church, the Catholic church I more often than not fail to attend.
I got in the van early in the morning and had the girls wear pretty dresses. I wore black pants and a black shirt and no make up. I consider the [...]

I received an email asking me why military children get a month all to themselves. The email suggested that it’s not fair military children have some type of preferential treatment or a month dedicated to them when all children should be honored.
I agree that all children should be honored, but before I dive into [...]

Luisa, my 8 year old daughter, went to her first sleep over tonight. She was so excited and talked about it all day long. Really couldn’t wait for it and packed her bag a full day in advance.
Luisa asked me to write her a letter before she left. Lately, we have been writing letters to [...]

My daughter read my last blog entry and wanted to tell me what ’she’ thought of it. I thought it would be fair to give her a chance to respond.
‘Hi, my name is Luisa and I am a little mad at my mom because she never told me that she tries not to smile [...]

These two products have been my constant companions for the last few weeks….

I don’t remember ever being so interested in having a twin, but my oldest daughters, two years apart, want to be twins so they try to dress up the same way.
Of course daughter number 1 is in charge of the act but they play this game for quite a while.
Here is a picture of them [...]