June 2012

Happy Birthday?

by Kate Fineske June 28, 2012

My own children’s birthdays have a way of sneaking up on me. This could be because of my poor family planning the fact that all three of my children were born at very busy times of the year for our family (before and after the December holidays and just as the school year is ending). [...]

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Preventing Our Children From Repeating Our Own Past Mistakes - A Letter by Tatum Buckholtz

by Kate Fineske June 21, 2012

“No! STOP! Don’t do that!” Occasionally I want to shout these words as loud as possible to my children because many times I know, from my own past experiences, that a choice my child is about to make is not going to pan out well. We would all like to stop our children from repeating [...]

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Here He Comes to Save the Day (A Fathers’ Day Tribute)

by Kate Fineske June 14, 2012

~ My initial, somewhat calm thought began as: Uh-oh. I think… I messed up… Then I looked again at the instruction booklet and saw this sentence that I had overlooked earlier: ATTENTION: THIS STEP CANNOT BE REVERSED!* *It’s important to note that I saw this after the step was already performed. Very quickly my thoughts [...]

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The Forever Summer

by Kate Fineske June 7, 2012

“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.”~ Sam Keen My 2-year-old, completely enjoying the simplicity of rolling down the hill in our backyard. ~WARNING: I am officially in “summer mode,” and this is how I know: Last week, I nearly forgot to get my children up for school.Yep, I sure did! 8:10 a.m. rolled around [...]

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