Category Archives: AllMomDoes

First things first: Moms: thank you for being awesome. Well done...that's it! The question is, what would it look like for you and your family to practice following Jesus all week long? At the end of ...

On only my second visit, a therapist mentioned to me that she could tell I was driven. She noticed this by checking my pulse and by my answers to her random questions that I have a hard time relaxing....

So... here's the deal. If you've read any of my other blogs that I have written, you know that I have this tendency to get in over my head trying to make things "special". I end up expending stupid am...

I am an empath. Almost every time there is a tragedy or a natural disaster--most recently, Hurricane Harvey in Texas, Hurricane Irma in Florida, Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, the earthquake in Mexic...

Do you hear the hoofbeats? The gallop approaching from a formerly distant calendar shore? Yep. It's the coming retail apocalypse. And if history serves as any guide, there will be that one item this y...

There were five kids in my childhood home and my mom was raising us on her own. She worked full time, and for many years, also was putting herself through school. My four siblings and I had the run of...

These days, Dads are really stepping up to the plate and doing so much more than their ancestors ever did. In earlier times, men weren't as involved with child-rearing. They didn't change diapers or t...

If there is one thing that drives me crazy, it's stir-crazy kids in my house. With the weather calling for rain through May (ok slight exaggeration - I hope), here are several places in the greater Se...

I love me a good appetizer, especially during football season. Enter the wonton cup. A baked wonton wrapper turns into the perfect crispy vehicle for savory, gooey deliciousness. The only problem is, ...

This is a story of a mom, just a regular ol' mom of three boys who so desperately wanted to delight her boys that she fried her brain in an attempt to build them a fort of epic proportions. She was ne...