There is overwhelming joy and raw emotion in reminiscing about old photographs. With tear-stained cheeks I recently remembered when my kids were small. It seems like yesterday they were trying solid foods and learning to walk.  These precious memories reminded me of the fleeting nature of life and how quickly time passes.  It’s hard to […]

Mindlessly surfing the web, I stumbled upon an article that had me riveted from moment one.  Surprisingly, this post described various ways parents scar their kids for life. Curious and always a bit unsure if I am on the right parenting path, I was floored to learn the #1 way parents are ruining their children. […]

(This post does contain affiliate links. If you choose to purchase through them, I will make a commission that helps to fund this blog.) I love being a mom.  I love the laughter, the snuggles, and guiding my children on this journey through life.  It was a journey I prayed for and I waited for […]

“I blew it with my four-year-old yesterday. Her constant whining wears me down.” “I’m pregnant with my third and the hormones are raging!” “My older kids fight non-stop, and the baby is headed into the ‘Terrible-Two’s’!” “I have a stressful job and when I come home, all I see is the mess. It makes me […]

Our homes should be the safest place on earth to raise our children and live as a family.  While the family unit appears to disintegrate more and more each year, there is a simple solution.  As a parent, you can create a loving home atmosphere for your family starting with these 9 principles. Once applied, […]

I would guess that all parents want their children to become each other’s best friends. The question is how do siblings become best friends?   As the mother of 6 children ages 26 through 15 that consider their siblings their best friends I have gone straight to them and asked them how exactly did their brothers […]

It was 9:00am and my stomach was turning. She would be here in a half hour. The baby girl that we had been praying for since the day we were called to adopt. She was almost three months old and was coming from her first foster home to her second. She arrived at 9:30 am. […]

There you are in the grocery store, trying to shop peacefully, when your child erupts in fit of screams and launches into a world-class meltdown. Trying to soothe the savage beast is never easy and you resort to bribery in a last-ditch effort to calm his tiny spirit. Rejecting your peace-offering, his tantrum continues, and […]

Mommy anger: the one thing I vowed I would never succumb to,. And one day, boom! There it was and I couldn’t stop it. I felt hot all over, like my chest was going to explode & I’m sure the roots of my hair glowed red hot. I couldn’t speak. I couldn’t breathe. I couldn’t […]

{Please note, this post does contain affiliate links and if you choose to purchase, I will make a commission which supports this blog.  Please visit the disclosure policy for more details.} A new day is breaking but the sun has not yet graced the sky. Bubs has been in time-out twice already for throwing toys, […]

It’s too early in the day to be giving up. But this kid, man. He already has me in tears. Yesterday, he dumped all my precious coffee creamer on the floor (hence the tears), and while I was cleaning it up, he flushed the lid to Daddy’s shaving cream down the toilet — effectively clogging […]