Ever After

Happy Birthday, to YOU! Bryan’s birthday celebration spanned from sun up to sun down this year! Our family desperately needed some recreational time together so that we could set aside the demands of Bryan’s very stressful work week/month/year, the never ending home/yard improvement projects, and the busyness of church/volunteer responsibilities. On this special day of [...]

Do other moms want to run away sometimes? I don’t mean the mom’s that you hear about on the evening news. I mean “normal” moms. The kind that sit next to me at church, or that I see at Target or swim practice or PTA meetings. It’s been building for a while. It seems like [...]

To get the full effect, I recommend that you play the attached sound clip while reading this entry. (The song actually has special meaning to me because we sang it in 4th grade honor choir). [audio:http://tolberts.org/lori/Audio/cricket.mp3] Last night, I found our lucky little cricket after cleaning up the dinner dishes. Because I am entomophobic (I [...]