I am always looking for ways to be more present and connect with my kids and to facilitate any means of communication with them. It’s a constant challenge for me with five kids who are twelve and under at home, especially with sports schedules and homework and well, you know… life. About a year and […]
Parenting
How Diversified Is Your Meaning Portfolio?
One of the things I love the most about this week in between Christmas and New Year’s is reflecting on the past year, reevaluating, and figuring out what parts of my life I really want to make better. And I am finding that the older I get, the more mindful I am of the quality […]
Preventing The Pre-Christmas Mom Freakout
Hey Moms… Are you losing your shit right now? Are you in the middle of a pre Christmas freakout? Are you one horn honk, one stink eye or one kid complaint away from the mother of all meltdowns? If you are, I get it. I have been there. And a couple years ago, I’d have […]
You Have A Ballsy, Outspoken, and Exasperating Five-Year-Old? Good.
I started writing this blog about five and a half years ago. Number 4 was five years old at the time. And if you were here back in the beginning, you’ll probably recall that she was a bit of a handful. Straight out of the uterus, she gave me a run for my money. In […]
Twenty-Six Days
The biggest gift I am giving my family this year for Christmas wasn’t purchased in a store. It wasn’t ordered online. It wasn’t even anything they asked for. Not directly, anyway. But now that I’ve given them this gift, I realize it was something they wanted. And something they needed. In fact, it was something […]
The Sandy Hook Family
My Facebook feed is flooded with tributes, memories, and reminders of the 26 people who were killed in the Sandy Hook shootings today, largely because I live just a few miles from Sandy Hook Elementary school. And today is the fifth anniversary of the most unimaginable tragedy I’ve known in my lifetime. Is it the […]
