3 Reasons Why Your Kids Need to See You Eat I know, it should be obvious that mom needs to eat and if you are a stay at home mom it might be hard to eat without your kids watching. But I’m pretty sure I’m not the only woman out there who has cooked for her family, realized there wasn’t… Read More
Life Isn’t Fair – Get Over It, Celebrate It.
Why I tell my kids to be glad that life is not fair – and You Should Too! How do you respond when your kids complain that life isn’t fair? I know I’m not the only mom who has heard one child complain because the other has a friend over and she doesn’t, or he gets to have soda and she… Read More
The Pros and Cons of Having a Large Family
We walked into a restaurant tonight and one of the other guests counted out loud as we followed the hostess to our seats. I laughed, because it happens all the time and it doesn’t bother me. There is an unspoken question, I think, when people see a large family, and that is, “What are the pros and cons of having… Read More
Teaching Kids to Appreciate Others
Have you ever worried about how little respect there seems to be in society today? It seems like we live in a time where you can make negative comments about anyone and anything and get away with it. Tweet it, put it on Facebook, text it – whatever; it’s all fair game. Last summer it seemed that the disrespect being… Read More
A different take on Mother’s Day
Does your family honor and recognize you on Mother’s Day? Do you want them to make a big deal about you on Mother’s Day? I confess that I waver on this one. Part of me wants to be honored and celebrated because being a mom is a lot of work! But part of me doesn’t want to make that big… Read More
How to Recover From an Epic Failure
How do you recover from an epic failure as a wife? It was an evening I will never forget, and not in a good way. I love my husband. We’ve been married 18 years and while it has not always been pure marital bliss, it has been fun. But there is one incident I can remember when I felt like… Read More