We are excited to announce the start of a new series: REAL TALK with Red Stick Moms. In this series, we are hoping to tackle some topics that are on our minds and hearts as we raise our children and navigate the everyday. This is for the day-to-day life stuff… the things we think on a lot but don’t always have the space to share about. We are hoping to get the conversation started and then open up the discussion to YOU! So read our thoughts, share your own, and join us on this crazy, uncertain, but amazing road of motherhood.
Today's Real Talk topic is on family vacations and who you choose to spend them with. Is quality time...
Parenting teens in today's social media age is hard. My stepsons are only 12 and 15, but they've already seen their fair share of teenaged scandal. One of them had a classmate - a girl he had known since kindergarten - who was forced to relocate to another school after she texted a fellow student an inappropriate photo. Another classmate was expelled for threatening to shoot up the middle school (don't worry, my stepsons live out of state so this didn't happen anywhere local). For these, and many other reasons, our family has some pretty serious rules when it comes to cell phones, the Internet, and especially social media.
Our main rule is that we have the right to see whatever is on our boys' cell...
My son, Hudson, came into my life with a sensitive heart and a needy personality. Needing constant contact, love and attention. To be completely honest, this quality of his drove me insane. If I wasn’t holding him, he was crying. If I didn’t co-sleep, he wasn’t sleeping. I never showered. I never slept. I never left the house. Yes, yes, all of this sounds pretty typical of a newborn baby but three years later he is still that same sweet and sensitive soul. Needing constant hugs, affection and acknowledgement. Even now as I am writing this, my little man is asking “can you hold my hand, Momma”? This is his favorite and most common request of me. When he’s...
Confession: I have a crush on the library. Yes, the library, our library, the East Baton Rouge Parish Library. I think about it when I’m away from it. I plan ways I can go to it and spend time there. I brag about it to my friends and family.
Why? Because I believe there is enough to go around and that your life can be just as enriched as mine. Permit me to tell you a few reasons why I am in serious like with the local library:
1. An oasis in the chaos.
Your local library branch offers a quiet refuge in the busyness of life. Tables in the children’s departments are set up with coloring pages and crayons. Computers at...
My heart is broken, and so is my marriage. They weren't broken all at once by some horrible act. Little pieces have been chipped away over time.
Sometimes, I wish that giving up was an option. It's not, and I don't really want to, but I'm exhausted, and hope seems so out of reach.
How do you cope when you are fighting for your marriage and your spouse seems to be going through the motions? But then, am I really fighting for us? Or fighting against him?
Am I so used to being let down that I am expecting it, and jumping on any opportunity to complain? Or are we working on practical ways to bring us closer together?
I really don't know....
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