Adoption

Unless you're living under a rock, you've at least heard about NBC's latest attempt to pull heartstrings and draw you in each week with a TV show called This Is Us. It's basically an hour-long cryfest every Tuesday night...and...

The other night I was laying with my little girl while she fell asleep. I was rubbing her back and comforting her while we were snuggled up. It was normal — a totally normal occurrence on a normal night...

When I was growing up I thought therapy was a bad thing. I thought it involved lying on a couch while you talked to someone who took curiously secretive notes and peered over you from their spectacles. Perhaps I...

When we moved into our new house, little did we know that what we thought would be a simple kids' room would end up being a labor of love that would bring us closer together, unleash latent talents, and...

This post is to all of those who are second. To clarify, second is not first. It means someone came before you, but just because you are second, doesn’t mean you are less. Let me back up and explain myself. I am...

Two years ago I knew very little about foster care.  I had a friend I’d grown up with who was a foster parent, and I thought that was great — FOR THEM.  I was glad they opened their home...

One of the classic questions we get asked as moms is how many children we have. I always thought it would be an easy and straight forward question to answer. Now it is not, and I don’t know...