Tagged With: slice of life
The Long Winter
According to reports from family and friends, the northern half of our country hasn’t gotten the message that winter’s over and we’re well into spring. I can’t log onto facebook without seeing pictures of the carnage: houses and driveways decorated in early-American Blizzard, bird feeders and picnic tables buried under snow. I hear Punxsutawney Phil … Continue reading
Random Acts
I drove up to the last toll booth at the end of a long eight hour trip and fished around for a dollar fifty in change. Unfortunately, the coins weren’t biting. Traffic piled up behind me as I frantically searched cup holders, pockets, and the diaper bag for loose change. No toll booth attendant in … Continue reading
The Bethany
The Gurgels are coming! The Gurgels are coming! The call of company rings throughout Mayhew Land. Few things are as exciting to us as having family and friends come visit. So when my sister Beth called to tell me they would be here over Spring Break, I flew into my usual flurry of preparation. This … Continue reading
Nothing Says “I Love You” Like a Mix Tape
Nathanael emerged from his office with a dusty cardboard box. “You’ll never believe what I just found,” he said, dumping the contents out. A mountain of old cassette tapes spilled out. Not just any old tapes, though. Special ones we’d made for each other in high school. I was immediately transported to a different place … Continue reading
Holiday Review
Can you believe Christmas is over already? I wish my favorite time of year lasted just a bit longer, but time waits for no man (or sentimental woman). Before I plunge head first into a New Year, I must give December a proper send-off. What better way to do so than a Mayhew Holiday Review … Continue reading
Making a Memory
Last week I got a hankering to put up my outdoor lights. While I stood in the front yard making plans, Luke wandered out of the house. Excited for the help, I sent him into the attic to collect dusty boxes and tangled light strings. Of course, I couldn’t just wrap them around the porch … Continue reading
My Favorite Fairy Tale
By now you know me well enough to know I adore Once Upon a Time and Happily Ever After – and all the fun stuff that happens in between. But my favorite stories will always be the ones that are true. Sunday, September 16th, a new story began with the birth of Baby Mayhew #7 … Continue reading
Family Movie Night
It seemed like a good idea at the time. Pizza and a movie for the whole family every Friday night. A perfect plan. One might even say a fool proof plan. Yet week after week, I manage to screw it up. Family Movie Night has become an obligatory event that most of us dread. At … Continue reading
Two Letters
They were waiting on my bed when I stepped out of the shower this morning. Two letters. One fresh from the morning mail, written in my own hand, and addressed to myself. The other, crinkled and juice-stained, written in a child’s messy loops, and addressed to “MOM”. My heart thudded in anticipation as I reached … Continue reading
$ .25 Therapy
We all have an embarrassing childhood memory or two that will piggy back on our psyche until the day we die. Mine is crayons. You can imagine the emotional flare up I have around this time every year. As a kid, going back to school was one of my favorite times of the year. I … Continue reading
--A Little Bit About Me--
I may look like a (normal) person, but I'm actually a sheep in the Good Shepherd's fold. If He weren't making me to lie down in green pastures, leading me beside the still waters, and restoring my soul, I'd look a lot more frazzled than this.
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