The Myth of Parenting Older Children

  To recap (in case you’re new here – hi!), I have five kids: 17, 15, 13, 10, and 4. Oftentimes when I express frustration or fatigue as a Mother, I’m met with some...

Why My Mind Can’t Manage To Stay in the Present

My mind seems caught in a six-month time warp. Even though I am going through each day, fulfilling responsibilities, meeting deadlines, completing routine tasks, my mind is not...

Sea World San Antonio at Christmastime

The week after Christmas, the kids were anxious to get out on an adventure. Realizing that our Sea World San Antonio passes would expire at the end of the year, we decided to take a very...

Teaching Kids About Charitable Giving

A few days before Christmas, my 4yo son and I were heading into a store when he noticed the Salvation Army bell ringer out front. My son waved to the man, who enthusiastically waved back...

One Mother, Two Women

There’s a “me” I’m worried my kids will never know, and sometimes the thought breaks my heart. If they had seen me during a work trip in Los Angeles last week...

Teaching Kids Financial Responsibility with Kidworth

A few weeks ago, my daughter went on a campus visit to the college she hopes to attend next Fall. Watching her take these steps toward her future has given me reason to think over how my...

Holidays without Family: Relaxing or….Boring?

Among all the things we considered when moving from Oregon to Texas, we never fully recognized how hard it would be to come home and visit. Isn’t that odd? We were focused on what the...

The Only Thing That Gets To Me Is Everything

My family is more than four months in to this temporary situation of living apart – my husband in Chicago during the week, the kids and I in Houston. There are many things about our...