Tag Archives: Relationships

For this week's post, scheduled to be published on September 23, 2015, I thought it would be fun to see what meanings the date had.  Maybe it was National Brush-Your-Cat Day.  Or, maybe it m...

I never really met this girl, but I saw her around all the time. Our kids sorta-kinda knew each other and although we’d smiled in passing, we never really introduced ourselves. To be honest, she...

When I became a mom five years ago, one of the many things I didn’t know was how much I would treasure the relationship that my kids have with their grandparents. I am truly blessed in my life w...

When I was seventeen, my best friend, Tania, and I jumped into my white Plymouth Duster and drove from State College, Pennsylvania, to Atlanta, Georgia—straight through in thirteen hours. We dro...

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 ...