I often get brushed off when I tell people I’m a working mom from home. I don’t sell anything but my words, but I have the task of working with four little ones, six and under at home. How do I make it work? I pray each and every day they take a long nap. …
May 10, 2005 was a very, very big day for me. It was the day, exactly ten years ago, that I became a mom. I’ve written about that day so many times, but it never gets old. It’s a day in my life, in our lives, that began a whole new journey for us. To …
Thank you Pop Secret for sponsoring this post! We love sharing our fort stories with the world, but the popcorn we will never share! #PopSecretForts I’ve been building forts for as long as I can remember. You pretty much use what you have on hand: chairs, step ladders, blankets, sheets, pillows, cardboard. A DIY …
No one told me that the moment I would find out the tiny person person inside my womb was a girl, that my best friend was soon to be born. No one told me that she would light up my world, every day, for the rest of our lives. Looking back, I should have known. …
For us Dads, the holidays can often give us a chance to catch up on things around the house that we were too busy to do before. Now that you can spend more time at home, it might seem like a good idea to dust-off your long neglected to-do list. You might find a …
It’s hard to create a good work-life-family balance. Even when you have all of the right tools, things get pushed off until later and, a lot of the time, the things that you push off because they seem frivolous or indulgent are the things you need to do the most, just to stay sane. …