by Kim Rowland | Feb 20, 2016 | Kim's Blogs
As the parent of a baseball player, I can definitely say that there is a hopeful expectation that sets in right after Christmas and New Years have passed. When lots of people are feeling kind of sad and deflated after the excitement of the holidays, the parent of a...
by Kim Rowland | Jul 13, 2015 | Kim's Blogs
Every school teacher dreads it. As soon as the red, white, and blue flag decorations come down and the Fourth of July commercials stop airing, we begin to sense it. The respite of summer vacation quickly coming to an end. Soon it will be time for kids to go back to...
by Kim Rowland | Mar 22, 2015 | Kim's Blogs
I remember, over two years ago, I sat down to write my second blog post. My first blog post had been posted only a few days before, so I felt then that I needed to quickly clarify that although I write about stories from my life and our family, I am in no way calling...
by Kim Rowland | Feb 17, 2015 | Kim's Blogs
Late yesterday afternoon, I walked outside to empty my mop bucket and rinse out my mop. Of course, in the midst of doing so I got distracted and remembered something I had been noticing for the past few weeks in our backyard. We have a lot of woods right behind our...
by Kim Rowland | Dec 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
Talk about a tough holiday season. A week after Holt’s funeral it was Thanksgiving. Three weeks after that we braced ourselves for Christmas and New Year’s. It seemed like one hard blow after the other, and I have to admit that the timing felt so unfair....
