Parenting

Having boys will break you. It will make you give up on having a clean house, a bathroom that doesn't smell like pee, and ever having a pantry full longer than a day after coming home from the store. It...

Bring on the cuddles, the excitement of watching it snow and the hot chocolate by the fire. Give me endless days in pajamas and pancake breakfasts and the chance to play all the games we got for Christmas. Just not...

If you had asked me when I was a child to define what a "grandmother" is, I would have given you all of the stereotypical attributes. I would have described a little old lady with white curly hair, generally...

Forgive and forget. That is the mantra we are taught from a young age. Forgiveness is pounded into our brains and yet many of us are never properly taught how to forgive. We recite the words and yet the...

As 2015 is winding down, I can say with all certainty that this year absolutely FLEW by. I know we all say it every year, but seriously. Didn't I just get snowed in for nine days back in January...

I used to love working out. I loved the sweat and the muscle and the exhilarating endorphins (and being able to eat whatever I wanted). But while I was not the most consistently fit young adult, I never went...

“I’m sending these kids back to school if I have to send them in a full plague doctor suit complete with mask,” I commented. An acquaintance from high school was polling people on the internet; are we sending the...