Before I start this letter, which is really a series of notes, I want to first address the topic of parent judging. Parent judging, in our culture, has almost reached the level of an Olympic sport. Oddly enough, the worst parent judging I have ever seen is online. It’s easy to judge when no […]

  When you find yourself expecting a baby you can’t help but imagine what your child will be like. We all have hopes, dreams, and expectations for our children. As a parent, you wonder what traits you will pass to your children – blue eyes, a goofy laugh, a startling sneeze. Then suddenly, they’re here. […]

My 6 year-old asked me to walk down the stream with him last night. Literally, we walked down the middle of the stream because there is so much vegetation you can’t walk on the side. The water was deep enough that my son wore my husband’s boots.  It was absolutely beautiful and peaceful. He chattered […]

    There is a lot of poop in my life. We got a dog a few weeks ago. She’s pretty good about not going in the yard, but she’s still a dog. We also finished potty training our LAST child two months ago Last. One. (There’s a Hallelujah chorus going on at my house.) […]

Dear Overwhelmed Mother of One, I’m going to tell you a short story. It starts when I had my first daughter, which oddly enough, is when lots of my stories start. I was like many first time moms, completely overwhelmed. My baby cried, my body was a mess, my house was a mess, and my […]

A few years ago, my daughter went to a church activity and brought home “Our Journal”, also called a You and Me Journal. It’s a journal meant for two people to write notes back and forth to one another. My daughters and I did it for a while but then we moved…and then we moved […]

This is the third in an on-going series of posts titled Lessons from Parenthood. Definitely not lessons in parenthood because I know I am not qualified to write about those. Parenthood teaches so many incredible lessons, many of them humbling and hopefully funny. We parents have to laugh at ourselves if we are going to […]

Whether being a Stay-at-Home-Mom (SAHM) has always been your dream or has become your slightly nightmarish reality, you may sometimes look around and wonder what you’ve gotten yourself into. Being a SAHM comes with lots of challenges. Loneliness and boredom are the two that seem to be the most common and universal. Confession time, I didn’t […]

  I have trouble keeping my van clean. Read the post from my van here and you’ll get a glimpse of the on-going battle I’m fighting. Let me be clear, the inside of the van. I’ve completely given up on the outside; there’s no hope there so let’s move on. I grew up in a […]

  This is a blog post written by my good friend Karli for her blog a few years ago. She has given me permission to repost here. It touches on some interesting aspects of being a stay-at-home parent.  A few weeks ago, shortly after we purchased a new car, I was going over our budget and […]