Tag Archives: Relationships

My Daughter: “You know what Michelle called me at school?  Right in front of everyone at the lunch table!” Me: “No, what did she call you?” My Daught...

There are two things that will kill a relationship with another mom, a momlationship if you will, faster than you can say, "Your baby is so cute." Comparison and judgment. The two go hand-in-hand and ...

Just in case you haven’t been following along, I’ve been working on instilling contentment in my teens and last week I suggested 6 activities that might help with this. One of t...

The minute you discover another woman is also a mom, something shifts.  An indescribable, unspoken connection is formed and you know that you are both part of the same sisterhood. Moth...

By the time our kids reach 16 and above I have this unrealistic expectation that they should be acting more like adults than kids.  For the most part, I believe that if we treat our teens more ma...

1979. There’s 11 acres of untouched wilderness on a river in Washington State. My Dad boards a plane in Seattle, flies over for the day, walks the land, purchases the land and then flies back to...

You know that thing when you need to just get it all out and externally process all the emotions and intricacies of The Big Problem in your life and then your friend starts trying to solve The Big Pro...

The day before had been one of the best in recent memory with my kids.  But there we were the following morning, barely even daybreak, and it was already shaping up to be one of those days that y...

Whatever season of motherhood we’re walking through, we can’t do it alone.  We need each other and, quite frankly, we make each other better. I know I’ve ...

When I think about marriage, there are definitely a few things I wish I had known before walking down the aisle to say “I do.” After becoming a wife I have had to learn the hard way of how...