There are 7 ½ school days left until summer.  Normally, at this time of year, I’m a bit of a mess.  I’m a stay-at-home mom to two young...

Do you like to make people happy? I do!  I love to do nice things for people!  It makes me feel valuable and worthy.  I get pumped up...

Sometimes the greatest blessings can come from the simplest and even messiest moments.  That was certainly true for me this morning. I...

I’ve gotten more compliments over weight loss than anything else I’ve ever done in my life. Never mind the times in my life that I’ve...

Have you ever looked at young child and thought, “I wish I had a fraction of the energy that kid has?”  Kids seem to have a never-ending...

“I LOVE basketball,” The Professor grandly announced from the confines of his car seat. “I want to basketball again, Mommy!  Not just at...

I always assumed that having kids would teach me how to love.  I just never imagined that parenthood would teach me how to love not just...

Not too long ago, a friend of mine was preparing to go on maternity leave when a coworker asked her, “Are you looking forward to your...

It’s Monday night. After an hour and a half of chopping, boiling and grilling (spaced in between missing-toy-train-reconnaissance...

“Go Ahead – Buy it! You Deserve it!” When is a splurge worth it? And when is a splurge just an unnecessary extravagance? I’m writing this...

Christmas is 45 days away. Does that news give you an anxiety attack, or fill you with peace and goodwill toward men? I doubt this is the...

I was holding my five-year-old son’s hand in his school’s parking lot yesterday afternoon when he casually pointed to the sidewalk....