by Ingrid Lochamire | Dec 17, 2013 | Faith
It was a strange juxtaposition, now that I think of it. Back in the years when we celebrated Christmas at the little white church by the side of the road, every Christmas program ended with a visit from Saint Nick. Bearded, dressed in a fur-trimmed red suit and black...
by Ingrid Lochamire | Oct 25, 2013 | Family
The lyrics from a popular song a few decades back keep running through my head: “Where have you gone my little boy, little boy? Where have you gone my sonny, my own? Turn around you’re two, turn around then you’re four; Turn around you’re a...
by Ingrid Lochamire | Oct 18, 2013 | Family
This is the day when we write for five minutes non-stop, no editing for Lisa-Jo Baker’s “Five Minute Fridays”. So, here it goes: I finally did it. On the Thursday before he was to come home from college for fall break, I rummaged through the pile of...
by Ingrid Lochamire | Oct 11, 2013 | Family
Blogging today at Lisa-Jo Baker’s Five Minute Friday. Those were such “ordinary” days — those weeks, months and years when our four boys sat under their Mom’s tutelage. Trying at times, rewarding most of the time, we were just...
by Ingrid Lochamire | Sep 1, 2013 | Faith, Family
Between doing loads of laundry…..checking off that college packing list….swiping at those unbidden tears…. I popped the CD on the top of my music stack into the CD player and was taken back 40 years to my one and only year in college. “You just...
