Tag Archives: Relationships

“I get the feeling that you really don’t like being just a mom.” The words my husband spoke were concise and piercing.  He had seen something deep in the heart of me, and now wa...

I walked through the door on Monday feeling good about getting a workout in after work. “How are the kids?” I asked my husband. He responded, “Well, Mason threw up four times.”...

As I drive down the country roads in my town during the morning hours, I see children standing by the road waiting for their school buses.  The younger ones look tiny and scared in their bulky ba...

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...

I don’t remember very many nights over the last year, that I haven’t gone to bed, feeling like I wasn’t enough. Every night, with kids tucked in, my mind has raced over the day, reca...

My luggage got lost today. So here I sit, in a random hotel room in Randomville, USA with no clothes. Or shoes. Or hairspray. It’s knocking on the door of a lot of my insecuri...

Sunday, September 7 is Grandparents Day. Yes, that’s tomorrow! While it’s too late to get a card off in the mail, it’s not too late to send a text, email or (gasp!) even pick up the ...

Now, it wasn't rocket science figuring that a kid might be sad when half his village was about to float away; call me discerning. It's just that all the other kids seemed to be managing, as if floodin...

I’ve been so excited this week for all the kids to go back to school.  No, not because I want to get rid of them, I just know they are ready.   Ready to get back into the swing of...

It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized that (because of many circumstances) I had missed out on a lot of the silliness and laughter of childhood. That made me sad and more than a little resent...