Raw Cake
When I imaged my teens getting into trouble, I failed to picture boxes of cake mix and homemade chicken noodle soup!
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Author: Kristen
Backpacking With Boys
What difficult journeys have you been on that you would do again in a heartbeat?
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Halcyon Hammocks or Hurricane Hammocks?
They were, however, working together. Which every mother loves to see. However, visions of concussions and broken limbs danced in my head as they roared with happy laughter.
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Boy Quotes and BBQ x 10
Momma–“Hey you guys, are you getting ready or just poking each other’s bellybuttons?”
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The Silent Summer
One time, I drove past an orchard that was being cut down. The trees were in the full-blush of spring bloom. Covered in a glorious snow of pale-pink blossoms. Full of beauty and life and the potential for a fruitful year. But they had all been cut down. They lay on their sides, in full bloom, dead. All of a sudden, I find myself feeling like that orchard.
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Chopping Ice Burgs
Sweet Boy#3–“Don’t touch my toe. It’s hurt.”
Epona the Camp Intern–“I would never touch your toe, hurt or not.”
Sweet Boy#3–“Would you touch Jesus’ toe?”
Epona–“Only if He told me I needed to.”
Sweet Boy#3–“What if touching Jesus’ toe gave you wings?”
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Old Boy Quotes
Sweet Boy#1–“We always look like poor, motherless children because of Theo’s hair. There are squirrel nests in there. That’s why they drop pine cones on his head. They’re feeding their babies!”
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Pre-K Poems
Maybe it was the milk pressure. Maybe my milk pressure was higher and Judah’s milk pressure was lower.
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Empty Bug Jars
I found my box of empty jars, from when my boys were young.
A brush of dust, a ream of rust. I sighed; my heart unstrung.
Stacked all helter-skelter, with holes poked in the lids.
Home to centipedes, pill bugs, and singing katydids.
Missing Trombones, Broken Glasses, Various Injuries, and Zombies … Oh, My?
… reality TV shows of fishermen in the Himalayas looking for man-eating catfish, to every mother’s nemesis … zombie movies! Yes, I had foolishly thought as a young woman that I would never subject myself to a zombie movie. I was wrong.
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