Tag Archives: Relationships

The first time I visited the Amazon jungle I had no idea the way it would change my life. I suppose it goes back to the idea of how encountering a world vastly different from your own will always chan...

Up until a little over 3 years ago, I had a huge fear of Social Media.   I guess you could say that I was a little old fashioned.  Now old fashioned isn’t bad, but I gu...

I am a step mom.  If it sounds a little like I’m introducing myself at an A.A. meeting, that isn’t so far away from how it feels. These words often require work for me to o...

“I get the feeling that you really don’t like being just a mom.” The words my husband spoke were concise and piercing.  He had seen something deep in the heart of me, and now wa...

I walked through the door on Monday feeling good about getting a workout in after work. “How are the kids?” I asked my husband. He responded, “Well, Mason threw up four times.”...

As I drive down the country roads in my town during the morning hours, I see children standing by the road waiting for their school buses.  The younger ones look tiny and scared in their bulky ba...

I’m not gonna lie.  If there’s one thing I love hearing more than anything else, it’s that I’m a good mom.  I work hard at it - harder than anything else I do in this...

I don’t remember very many nights over the last year, that I haven’t gone to bed, feeling like I wasn’t enough. Every night, with kids tucked in, my mind has raced over the day, reca...

My luggage got lost today. So here I sit, in a random hotel room in Randomville, USA with no clothes. Or shoes. Or hairspray. It’s knocking on the door of a lot of my insecuri...

Sunday, September 7 is Grandparents Day. Yes, that’s tomorrow! While it’s too late to get a card off in the mail, it’s not too late to send a text, email or (gasp!) even pick up the ...