You Can’t Have It All…but you can have the best life for you.
Your best life is the one you create with intentions, not the one your are forced into because of circumstances.
Giving the gift of Tech Fearlessly this Christmas
How Do You Choose? Choosing the right tablet can seem daunting. There is no shortage of options for giving tech, but my first priority is for my kids to be safe online. The technology is in place at a price we can all afford Right now Kindle Fire, this powerful little tablet, is available from…
The art of building skills when Dad was not a “fix-it” guy and your stuff is broke
My husbands Father and and Mother divorced when he was just a year old, though his Dad remained a part of his life, the passing of skills that normally happens in the garage was interrupted by distance. At 10, I acquired a Dad by marriage. The poor guy was 26 with a new wife, a teenager,…
Stop Telling My Kids Sex is a Sin
The world has made sex cheap and unsatisfying by reducing it to the level of skin. Please tell my kids that we are so much more than skin.
Second Wind Parenting: Surviving the Quirks of Life with Toddlers and Teens
I am in this strange place where my older kids are independent and I still have little ones underfoot. I realized the other day none of my “littles” have never been to the Apple Orchard. An event I looked forward to 13 years ago with my first batch of enthusiastic toddlers. Alas, I am old,…
When events with kids are not fun
It was not for the thrill of seeing how long it would take for my skin to crack open and peel. It was not even because we love badly performed minor league baseball. No. We sat in the blazing shadeless inferno that we call the Iowa Cubs stadium because as parents, that is what we…
Ahoy, moonlight house keepers!
I just swept my house, in the dark. It needed to be done. The kids needed to go to bed. The place was really quite a mess. The kind of mess that used to make my husband a little panicky, but he has been around us for a while and knows the difference between literal…
Mothering, a matter of the heart.
I’ll admit, sometimes I get a little irked. Please hear me out to the end though, and hear me with you heart. I see that “Nurses Appreciation Week” is coming up, as well as “Teachers Appreciation Week” and I know there is a celebration of Administrative Assistants that may be stretched a week as well,…