Tales from a Mid-Life Mama

May 8, 2013

Desensitize my Kids?!

I was participating in a women’s prayer meeting at a church where I was relatively new. Until that day, I regularly offered prayer for others, but rarely requested any for myself. As my children began Middle School, I realized that it would take the proverbial village to protect my kids from the stunning corruption widespread…
May 7, 2013

Easy Sausage Bread

Ingredients: 1 28oz. risen pizza dough (homemade or store bought) 1 16 oz. tube and another 8 oz. (half tube) of pork sausage 1 1/2 cups chopped onion 1 T. olive oil 3 T. chopped garlic (I use jar chopped garlic) 1 1/2 cups shredded Mozzarella 2 T. grated Parmesan 1 t. salt 2 t.…
May 6, 2013

Is It Fair That We Are Judged By How We Look?

This is a question that I have asked my college students over the years. Inevitably, they will argue that it is absolutely “not fair!” and without my intervention, end up sharing countless examples of when they, themselves immediately judged by physical appearance. Therefore, determining that while “unfair”, it is unequivocally, indisputably, inevitable. Recently, my 16…
May 3, 2013

The Teen Boys Sleepover

Half of my 16 year-old son’s hockey team slept over last week. With one eye on Iron Man 2 and the other checking their Instagram feed, they laid throughout the family room, with potato chips and soda bottles strewn everywhere. Unlike when my daughters’ have girlfriends sleep over, I was still in my “day clothes”…
May 3, 2013

Tummy Tuesdays!

Beginning on Tuesday, May 7th, weekly recipes will be posted under Tummy Tuesdays!
April 18, 2013

Post Vacation Reality Check

I had just survived a 22-hour car ride home with three teenagers in the backseat. My bottom surely expanded another two inches from the countless hours of idleness. Despite these truths and the annoying grunting by my family as they finally exited the minivan, I was mentally renewed, well-rested and highly motivated to commence a…