There once was a nine-year-old who asked her mom for a lacrosse stick. And goggles. And to join a cute team of other nine-year-olds....

I had one girl and two boys, all under the age of seven.  I was ready to burst, my fourth baby wiggling incessantly inside my pregnant...

Decisions. Decisions. How many thousands of decisions do we have to make as moms? We want to make all the right ones. From small...

I have a frenemy. Her name is Anger. SHE POPS IN OFTEN I’m just going about my very average day and WHAM, there she is. It doesn’t take...

What kind of a world are my kids growing up in? The question that plagued me on that dreadful morning 20 years ago. I had four little...

godly husband + passionate wife = great marriage great marriage + good parenting = well-behaved child well-behaved child + strong youth...

Or so I thought for most of my life. And Google backs me up on this. So does my husband. He loves an atmosphere where everyone gets...

"Are we going to see the wild horses?" my not-yet-college-bound, have-to-be-dragged-everywhere, youngest asked.  "You promised." We were...

It starts so young. We ask ourselves: Who belongs? Do we? My heart broke as my five-year old came home from kindergarten one day with...

There was a mom who was really tired. BEYOND TIRED. She was counting down the hours to “end” her active parenting. It had been every day...

We keep selling fear. Everywhere. Politics. If you vote for the other side, your good life as you know it will be over. BE AFRAID. Vote...

It starts early: Should we PUT DOWN our four-month old (let him "cry it out") or PICK him UP when he is fussy? Holding him tends to calm...

INTEGRITY. A word I have always used to describe my husband. He’s even won awards at work for it. Me. Not so much. I’m sneaky. And I...

My nighttime prayers were once filled with berating myself for the day past. Making sure I got all my ducks in a row before the Almighty....

It wasn’t pretty. What started out as a kind gesture on my part turned into a knock-down, drag-out fight with my teen. On a summer day,...

What we all fear? JUDGMENT. What we all do at times? JUDGE. I walked into the grocery store for the first time today since our mask...

There was this mom who had four kids not in diapers, but not quite teenagers yet. One early summer day, her left leg collapsed. After one...

"I had my first review today," my recent college grad says casually as he starts walking back downstairs to his room. My heart skips a...

There once was a woman who DID NOT like ordinary days. She wanted hoopla and fanfare. Bluster and rah-rah. Ordinary meant colorless and...