Ever wonder what your parenting style says about you?
Recently at my son’s baseball game, I noticed two different sets of parents. There were parents cheering and screaming for their kids with “Jacob’s Mom” t-shirts and [...]

Spring Break finally came and so did allergy season. Unfortunately, in our family this can be more of a pain than normal. My 4-year-old suffers from febrile seizures, which are seizures brought on by intensely [...]

With a couple weeks into preschool I am seeing such an improvement in my child’s growth. I remember when I first questioned the notion of placing my 4-year-old in school as opposed to waiting until [...]

With 3-1/2 hours of down time added to my life I am almost at a loss of what to do. I surely don’t want to start anything that would take up much of that time, [...]

Now that my youngest is able to articulate his feelings more and that he’s asking “Why?” a lot, I decided to start asking some questions of my own.
How are you feeling? What does that mean? [...]

Love this Michigan weather!!  These past couple weeks have brought us every kind of day you could possibly imagine—cold and windy to sunny and warm. Never knowing what lies ahead, the boys and I have [...]

Recently a friend announced to me that she was going “Green.” I had to laugh. In defense of anything environmental, I agreed to help her rearrange her “old” style of living to this upgraded “new” style [...]

So, like everybody else who made a New Year’s resolution to eat healthier, I had started improvising on the snacks. With a weakness for anything sweet & salty, I  immediately started diving into trail mixes [...]

I finally made it! My youngest son is starting pre-k. After raising four boys and and putting them through school, the last li’l chick is leaving the nest. So why do I feel like I’ve never [...]

Before the kids, before the marriage, before the careers and even before our first kiss, we all create for ourselves a “vision” of what we want in life.  “What do you want to be when [...]