by Alexandra Kuykendall | Jun 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
Ten reasons why turning 40 is better than turning 30 Last week I hit a milestone, well actually a milestone toward a milestone. I hit the month countdown to my 40th birthday. Now in a matter of weeks plus a few days I will have a birthday that honestly I am dreading....
by Alexandra Kuykendall | Jun 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
There is something as a mother about hearing of a gun in a school. A mother about to send her first baby to middle school. Something that makes my jaw tense and my fingers twitch. I wrote a few weeks ago about the shooting in Santa Barbara. Because of the connection...
by Alexandra Kuykendall | Jun 5, 2014 | Uncategorized
Last week Derek and I were invited to a retreat about generosity. I went mostly because it was a night away at the beautiful Glen Eyrie retreat center next to Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs. For two days a small group of us talked about holding things loosely...
by Alexandra Kuykendall | May 28, 2014 | Uncategorized
I learned this weekend you can take the girl out of the sorority, but you can’t take the sorority out of the girl I’ve been out of the college life a long time now. Sixteen years of marriage. Four children. Lots of jobs. Those years of pins and letters and secret...
by Alexandra Kuykendall | Apr 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
A new day. A new me. Yesterday I attended a one-day event in Denver for women juggling work and family. Right from the beginning the event’s planners said they’re opposed to the notion of ‘balance’. That instead, they frame life in terms of “mix”. Women have a mix of...
by Alexandra Kuykendall | Apr 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
It’s Friday…but Sunday’s Coming! There are some weeks when life goes according to plan. No one in the family is sick, there aren’t any snow cancellations and we move forward with all of the things we use to fill our days. And then there’s the...
by Alexandra Kuykendall | Apr 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
Happy National Siblings Day: A Prayer for Sisters It’s National Siblings Day, at least that’s what Honest Toddler tweeted and Google just confirmed. And today like almost every day I, an only child, consider what it means to raise a houseful of siblings. Do I let them...
