Being a Mom

We all love a beach trip, but going to the beach when your child is not yet kindergarten age can look much different than when you went with your spouse alone. Before hubby and I headed out for our...

The Christmas list is a little different this year at our house. While we’ll still try to get up to three big gifts for each of our children and grandchildren, we have decided to get back to doing something...

Read Part 1 here. The youngest planned this trip like she does most everything-did her research, shopped around, and made good choices. We were scheduled for a slot canyon tour Thursday morning before we left Page, Arizona. I learned that...

The start of a new year always signals a sense of renewal and hope.  All of a sudden we see ourselves as a project or a problem in need of fixing.  We tend to view our flaws through the...

I was chatting with another mom in the gym the other day about her workouts. I saw her do an exercise in the gym that I didn’t know how to do and asked if she would teach me to...

There are certain mom tasks that I have romanticized and have been waiting impatiently for my turn to do. Hanging balloons on a mailbox for a birthday party, getting a stroller in and out of a car to go...

Traditionally November is the time of year when we focus on what we are thankful for in our lives. This year has been hard in many ways, and harder for some than others. Many have lost loved ones or...

Buddy and Bailey were a part of our family for about fourteen years. We wanted them to live inside but our house proved crowded with the five of us and two fast-growing, active, chewing-on-everything lab-mix puppies, so they moved...

Big Box stores started to sell Christmas items in early October this year; this seems earlier every year. We are constantly bombarded with buy me messages. Ads are everywhere—YouTube, Facebook, television, radio, mail, magazines, newspapers, websites, billboards. Even our...

"Dear Mama...You Are Appreciated. "  Tupac wrote that anthem for his Mama and while our mamas and lives are quite different (for starters, my mama is not a "crack fiend"), the sentiment he expresses to his mama is the...