Tag Archives: 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...

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...