SlackerMommy and Nancy Lee have a secret Santa who is about to be revealed.
Nancy wrote a post detailing the necessary role of a CASA in many children’s lives and outlined the duties of these Court Appointed Special Advocates in working to prevent child abuse and neglect. She appealed to others to volunteer in this important role. SlackerMommy, who has the same agenda, wrote a passionate post about the Family Resource Center and their role in preventing child abuse for the Generous December Group Writing Project.

We’d just come back from her preschool open house. Iris had wanted to take Miss Leigh’s piggy puppet with her and had cried in the car on the way home, unable to relinquish her disappointment until I pulled the parking brake. I let her pick a Johnny-Jump-Up in the back yard, and then we came around to the front to collect the mail. Iris liked …read more