Greetings!!! Waaaaay back in August I had no intention of letting 5 whole months pass without me blogging or writing anything more than a Fa...

Honesty, integrity, trustworthiness: 3 values I'm trying to instill in my children. Around our house we lump those values into one big...

windows down wind blasting hair whipping radio on music blaring hands drumming drink full moisture beading lips swallowing ...

She wants to run. She wants to run a 5k race. She wants to run a 5k race without stopping. But. That would require tr...

The week's gymnastics lesson over, her children climbed into the gray van and fastened their seat belts. While buckling her 3 year old i...

photo courtesy of Mr. ThinkTank   My eyes scan the photo in search of something I can relate to, of some touch of familiarity. Nothi...

My tools for writing are my experiences as a mom, a black spiral notebook and a blue Bic ink pen, and my ruby red Dell laptop . A cup ...

I was complaining on Facebook about getting out of the habit of writing (blogging) and having writers block. Then a blub about 31 Days t...

Do you ever get where your brain is full of thoughts and plans and activities you want to do but you just can't seem to move it all fr...

There are no babies in my house. No tiny diapers. No bottles. No middle-of-the-night feedings. No pacifiers. No tiny shoes. No diaper b...

My children are perfect, all four of them. They never talk back, speak unkind words or throw temper tantrums. When we leave the house they a...

You know that feeling you get when your expectations aren't met?  Yep, disappointment.  That's what I want to talk about today. La...

All moms have one, and if you don't already you eventually will. We all have a "my child got into my lipstick/makeup/perfume...

"Have you experienced any miracles in your life?" is today's Third Thursday Thought. Have I experienced any miracles...

My husband is an expert at playing with our children.  He spends hours on the floor driving cars, building Lincoln Log forts, and connectin...

While pregnant with Will, I dreamed of baking cookies, mixing cakes, and rolling out pizza crusts with my children.  In my vision they wou...

Sooner or later every conversation between moms of young children turns to poop and pee.  We just can't help ourselves! We discuss toi...

Mom2Mom: a conversation between Moms about  the hard points of this motherhood journey. My full calendar wore me out last week.  Seriously....

A conversation between Moms about the hard points of this motherhood journey. A couple of days after last week's Mom2Mom post publis...

Today I'm beginning a new feature called Mom2Mom.  Several of you responded to my survey back in January saying you'd like to hear...