It never fails: During the week I will go pick up lunch somewhere or get on social media and see moms with their kids, enjoying summer. I start feeling down on myself because my kids are at camp and I am stuck behind a desk. Are those kids having a better summer than mine?
I work 40-50 hrs a week. Throw in gymnastics practice and renovating a house and I am one tired mama. My husband works, as well, so not much changes between winter and summer around our place. Not much in terms of lazy summer can be found in our house.
Growing up my mom stayed home and our summers were spent reading, playing outside, riding bikes with neighbors...
So much negative has happened recently in the world. There has been so much death and tragedy. The news and Internet is full of loss and fear-provoking heartache. With all of that, the judgment, ridicule, and finger-pointing begin. I have read the most horrendous, judgmental things in the last few weeks and not only is it unnecessary, it is pointless and uncalled for.
Instead, let's just be grateful.
When I say "be grateful," I am not talking about feeling blessed by your house or your car. Those are nice things and we should be proud to own them, but we should be grateful for more than our possessions. Let's be grateful for our marriages. Let's be grateful for our families. Maybe...
Dealing with the death of a family pet affects everyone in your family -- parents, kids, and even other pets. It is never easy to say goodbye to our beloved pets or as I like to say, our children. Every family's experience with losing their beloved pet is different, but I wanted to share a little about how we as a family said goodbye to our fur-ever loved Scooby Doo.
I want to first tell you a little bit about our puppy, Scooby Doo. Scooby was a fierce “Great Dane” personality trapped in a Dachshund body. He joined our family when my oldest son was only 4 years old, and {you guessed it} in the Scooby Doo phase. Micah picked...
I woke up this morning like any other Sunday morning, woken by kids wanting breakfast and my husband laying in bed next to me. I rememer thinking how thankful I was for today. Shortly after that, I learned that 50 people were killed and many more injured in a senseless act of violence in Orlando. My heart immediately started aching and wondering how this happens.
As I reflected on what was happening, I immediately thought of the parents of the victims. As parents, we pray for our kids' safety daily, sometimes even hourly. My heart hurts for the families of the victims. They did not deserve this; they were enjoying a night out with friends that ended horribly wrong. It...
Sometimes I think dads get a bad rap. After all, they are just a bunch of couch-loving, tech-crazed, incompetent, glorified babysitters that we put up with on a day-to-day basis, right? Thankfully, most dads I know don't fall into a single one of those categories. But when moms gather and talk, we do tend to get a little crazy with "dad bashing" because usually it gets a laugh and a sympathetic nod of how hard we all have it as moms. "Can you believe what he sent my poor child to daycare dressed in??"
My husband and I just came back from a great vacation at the beach and on the way home, I thanked him for being so willing...
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