Ages + Stages

There are two things that are most important to the LMB family right now... making it through this difficult time in one piece (having learned all the lessons), and giving back to our local and global community. We have supported...

There is never enough time. Never enough. There are dishes, and laundry, and school picture day, and the birthday party of the week, and soccer games, and gymnastics, and the never-ending list of other things that must be done....

You’re gonna miss this You’re gonna want this back You’re gonna wish these days Hadn’t gone by so fast These are some good times So take a good look around You may not know it now But you’re gonna miss this — Trace Adkins, “You’re Gonna Miss...

  I am finally 12 weeks pregnant, with baby #3. And while this is my third pregnancy, the beginning stage is just as rough this time around. I have felt all the things, including fatigue and failure. Failure to myself...

A few weeks ago, on the elevator at work, a lady saw a picture of my baby and asked how old she was. When I replied, “almost four months,” the look on her face shocked me. Her response was,...

I have a lot of internal dialogue. So much that when I see someone that I maybe had a thoughtful discussion with, I feel like they know and are evaluating a conversation that they were never part of. My dialogue...

Have you ever felt like you were prepared for something, only to find out that everything you thought to be true about a situation wasn’t? Maybe you studied the wrong material for a test. Maybe you walked into a...

I'm a friendly person. I typically don't have issues making friends. I can usually walk into a room and find someone I can talk to quickly without being overly awkward. I'd consider myself lucky in that regard. Even then,...

I guess it's real. I have the picture to prove it, so it must be real. I'm still just in shock about it. My firstborn will be a senior in high school next year. She just had her senior...

"Whoever CHOOSES to be an English teacher is an idiot." Those were my exact words to my sophomore English teacher. Of course, not to her face because my adolescent self was much more respectful than that but very much passive-aggressively...