Mother's Day - Life on the Road Less Traveled

May 12, 2018

Adoption, 10 Years Later: Letter to My New Mom Self

This year Christopher turns 18, and is reconnecting with some of his birth family, so it seems like the right time to get a little retrospective. (If that’s the right word.) Pour yourself a cup of tea and meander with me to 2015. Next weekend we celebrate a decade of “official” family life. Ten years since the adoptions were finalized and the kids were officially welcomed into the family . . . and baptized into God’s. We plan to go to Cedar Point with their godparents, to celebrate. This weekend, though, as Sarah and I sit in the living room — her painting designs on her […]

May 11, 2008

Happy Mother’s Day … to Extraordinary Moms!

This week’s Catholic Carnival is up at “Organ-ic Chemist.” Be sure to check it out!Every woman on the face of this earth has been called to be one. Oh, yes … even you. The job description of an extraordinary mom has a bit of “give” in it, like your favorite pair of jeans. For some, it involves childbirth … many times over. Stretch marks and sore nips and the kind of pain that makes a bad case of cramps seem like a walk in the park. For some, the call involves sending several children on ahead of you to heaven. Or bearing with courage infertility […]

January 21, 2008

Happy (Other) Mother’s Day

In honor of this other Mother’s Day, I’d like to invite you to enjoy this.Comedienne Anita Renfroe captures in 2.55 minutes everything we all say a million times a day. Kids snuck in while I was watching this classic for the first time, and said, “Hey! Is that YOU? You say that all the time!” Sarah has watched it about 27 times today. Gee, how come she never laughs when I say these things!‘Nuff said.