How to Handle Family Conflict During the Holidays
It seems the ever mounting pressure around the month of December is very real. Be here, buy that, cook this, wear that. I entered the month with a super intentional approach for...
Dating While Married | Expectations vs Reality
I believe that when we are young, we make up these unrealistic ideas of marriage. One of them is dating! We are set up by love movies and Disney for failure. We believe...
Vulnerability is quite the buzz word these days. In a world where authenticity seems to be few and far between, we crave vulnerability. We desire to see the REAL person behind the filters.
To know the heart behind the one...
Why Grandparents Are The Best
I would consider myself lucky, for the fact that I had 3 living, active-in-my-life grandparents for the first 16 years of my life. My parents were both born & raised in my hometown, and a...
Invite Your Neighbors Over | When Your House is Chaos
I currently have no less than 10 books on my dining room table. My house plants are trying to catch some rays there along with the laundry sitting in a...
"It takes a village."
That may be the most used phrase in motherhood, at least that I've heard. But one thing that never accompanies that statement is exactly WHAT that village looks like. I think that's probably because every village...
"What are you doing?!" I screamed? "Why did you do that?"
My 2 year old had poured numerous cups of water on the dinning room floor and had also managed to spill her brothers milk and Opps All Berries cereal too.
Now,...
Long before our youngest child's speech adequately developed, he would always quickly identify his older brother's toy action figures and superheroes as "daddy". It didn't matter which one - Spider-Man, Superman, Batman or Hulk. One quick glance at those...
My husband is a nerd which makes me a nerd wife. In our home we say “everyone is nerdy about something” and use “nerd” as a true term of endearment. While it may be true we are all nerds...
I rolled away from him on the narrow examination table and curled toward the wall. The stark white sanitary paper crinkled and crunched beneath me as I pulled my knees up to my chest and allowed hot, heavy tears...