Tag Archives: Relationships

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 ...

Now, it wasn't rocket science figuring that a kid might be sad when half his village was about to float away; call me discerning. It's just that all the other kids seemed to be managing, as if floodin...

I’ve been so excited this week for all the kids to go back to school.  No, not because I want to get rid of them, I just know they are ready.   Ready to get back into the swing of...

It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized that (because of many circumstances) I had missed out on a lot of the silliness and laughter of childhood. That made me sad and more than a little resent...

It's that time again. Lunches are packed, carpools have begun and it's the beginning of the year where we mark that next step of growth in our child's life. (Some of us have a marked up wall in our ho...

Happy September sweet friends! Is this your first week back to school? Have you bought a can of pumpkin yet and allowed yourself to bake something that fills your house with the smells of f...

This morning, I put my firstborn on the bus to Kindergarten.  {Somebody might want to call me to see whether I’m still functioning or if I’ve dissolved into a blubbering pu...