A Sunny Day, Please
Last week, I told my mom that all these overcast skies and a child who needs more attention than ever are wearing me down. For one day, I needed a bright sun shining in the sky (all day long, please) and a child who doesn't touch everything and who promptly obeys the command "Come here." Maybe you can relate? While I was looking for some much needed mommy inspiration, I found it in Lynn Bowen Walker's book Queen of the Castle. So, to my mommy friends out there who may feel like me from time to time, here you are... "There's no escaping the fact that our children do grow up. Though a rainy Candyland day with a preschooler may feel like it lasts fourteen years, before we know it those days are over. The kids are in school. They have their own friends. They play on sports teams with their own practice schedules. They engage in their own phone conversations, they want their own lunch money, and rumor has it, someday (soon!) they'll have their own dri...
