Author Archives: Kristina Slaney

It was late Saturday afternoon.  My son had been invited to a birthday party so I threw on a t-shirt, put my hair in a ponytail, and packed up the kids.  I don’t need to waste time get...

I’m not gonna lie.  If there’s one thing I love hearing more than anything else, it’s that I’m a good mom.  I work hard at it - harder than anything else I do in this...

This morning, I put my firstborn on the bus to Kindergarten.  {Somebody might want to call me to see whether I’m still functioning or if I’ve dissolved into a blubbering pu...

I am thankful. At five years old, after a lot of effort and consistency on my part, my oldest finally seems to be making a slow exit out of a super-picky eating phase that started right around his fir...

Jesus notwithstanding, we all find our own children to be perfection personified.  Spend two minutes talking to any parent and it’s clear that they are smitten.  Of course they are!&nb...

I’m going through a bit of an emotional crisis so I’m hoping to pour a few things out to you.  It’s okay to do that now, isn’t it?  We’ve known each other awhil...

There are lots of families that don’t watch television. Mine is not one of them. To be fair, we don’t watch TV all day long.  But I definitely appreciate the fac...

Maybe you traded vows and exchanged rings.  Maybe you signed paperwork at the courthouse.  Maybe you had 300 people celebrating with you, or maybe it was a small, intimate affair. ...

f you’ve read much of the stuff I’ve written, you know I talk about being intentional.  A lot. I believe in living life with intention.  Prioritizing my marriage with ...

The Fourth of July holiday is over, but we still have a firecracker in our house. Who else has one of these? My firstborn has been the stereotypical “oldest child”: &...