Tag Archives: Relationships

My mom’s name was Dorothy.  And, like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, she faced many challenges in her life.  But, somehow she also managed to have grand adventures and befriend some pret...

It’s a new school year and things will be a bit different for us.  You see, our 17 year old daughter has decided not to go forward with playing Basketball.  “Who cares!” yo...

I remember watching my eldest get on the kindergarten bus on her first day of school.  There was fear in her eyes and she looked way too tiny to be heading off to face the world on her own. ...

I'm reading another blog. And she's going on and on in flowery language about this blessed motherhood and I find myself wondering, "are we even living the same experience?" And she talks about the pri...

When I posted about the Ladies Hiking Group my sister and I started, a lot of you chimed in, telling me how you’d like to start something similar! You asked how we did it and how ...

Not everyone is going to like you.  I say this a lot, maybe because I need the reminder.  As moms raising kids, we’re in this weird stage of constantly being thrown into relationships ...

I saw this sign the other day on Facebook and it made my blood sort of boil and I chuckled a little too, because it just happens to be a huge pet peeve of mine. The sign said: &#...

The words seemed to spin around in the air - into my head and then my heart. “I have cancer.” That’s what my dad told me over the phone a few weeks ago. As the ...

I've worked outside the home for the duration of my motherhood, and I decided long ago to leave the mommy wars.  {I don’t think they really exist anywhere except on the inte...

Young moms have a lot of needs. They're still teenagers, yet they also have to balance school, a boyfriend, friends, parents, and sometimes work. As a teen mom I faced depression when I lost my boyfri...