Tonight, we’re sitting here in bed relaxing. Friday evening cuddles, with me already under the covers and the two of them like puppies...

Hey there, my newly nine year old daughter.  I see you.  You’re getting so tall, so mature, so very, very silly.  I love you! You sit at...

I loved being pregnant.  The heaviness in my belly.  The thought of this tiny growing thing that I could nurture just by being me.  All...

We didn’t mean to raise a mutton bustin’, mountain climbing, trail riding girl. Her first words were mama and dada just like any other...

That feeling, anxious sweaty palms, as you look across a room for a familiar face. That moment of feeling lost before you find someone. ...

I belong to a small women’s group that ranges in life experience from the very young to those that have grown children and everything in...

We go camping once a year, one night in a tent.  Dirty and smelling of smoke the next morning, we wake up too early, pack as fast as we...

We did not give a medal to everyone for participation.  That was scary.  We did say that everyone’s work was great and unique but there...

My daughter is beautiful.  Yes, I am her mother so I am a bit biased.  But I have also heard others admire her, comment on her pretty...

Recently, while he and I were discussing my gratitude he confessed that his indulgence of my whim is not completely unselfish….what?  I...

Be Nice – You put two of any creature together in tight quarters and there will be repercussions.  Sometimes that means good things...

My goal is to instill a sense of respect for property.  I also want them to get that it’s about self-esteem.  Because when you know who...

No, we are free.  However, with this freedom comes an absence.  We are a bit lost for what to do with our time.  We had been so scheduled...

Our two children have been very different in their meltdown behavior.  Our firstborn, being that his every need was met from day one,...

I’m glad he said these words.  I needed to hear them.  Even though I lived with him and saw him working in our kitchen and in a...

My son’s gifts are quantifiable.  I can tick them off on my fingers.  I often speak of them to others, as in, today my son mastered this...

Instead, I was standing, hands on my hips telling a six year old girl that in the future she should probably not climb onto a chair then...

We maintain the right for any other child to believe in Santa.  I lecture the children almost daily during the Christmas season about not...

Right now, my husband is on his way to a cookie exchange.  He took our four year old daughter with him.  As I am not feeling well and our...

After three years of sleeping in the same room, tonight my children will sleep apart for the first time.  For a while now they’ve each...