Do I really have to savor every minute of this parenting thing?  Because I don’t think I can truthfully.  A lovely Sunday morning, where all I truly want is to watch Charles Osgood, drink coffee, fant...

Last night I had a rare night out with two very special women, my great friends.  We all have busy lives and lots of kids, and seem to run on the same path and energy that most of the women around us ...

This has been a bit of a harder Mother’s Day than most.  Not a total expert, since I have only had 11 so far, this one just strikes me in a much more difficult place than my previous.

It is our secon...

I recently read an article in Huffington Post Parents about a mom gone bad.  More accurately, about a Mom who lost it one day and turned towards using sarcasm with her kids instead of being direct.  I...

Ten years ago I was a much different Mom sitting in this waiting room.  Now, seasoned beyond my wildest dreams, I have sat in more waiting rooms than I care to count.  The Rehabilitation Institute of ...

My family recently traveled for Spring Break – for a lot of reasons other than just “because everyone else does it.”  I felt we needed a drastic change of scenery.  We have been on a hamster wheel for...

I want to take a day off, I really do.  I want to sit back on the couch, relax, basically just not get up for awhile.  I want to be able to rest and do nothing, and to be ok with that.   But for some ...

I would not say I am a particularly flexible person, in the physical sense.  Can’t quite remember my last back bend or splits – but it was definitely sometime in my early childhood.  Yet, people are a...