Life Is Precious

Life Is Precious

by | Love

Guest Contributor Life is so precious. Why is it that sometimes it takes a major tragedy to help us realize that? It is so important to remember the one true gift we all have is life itself. It is so easy to get caught up in the sort of everyday things and forget that...
Special Moments with My Kids

Special Moments with My Kids

by | Let's Talk, Love

I have a routine with my kids each night. It started as something simple and has turned into something we all look forward to very much. When Parker was little, I was trying to find a simple way to help him remember what he’d done during the day while feeling...
The Importance of Friendship

The Importance of Friendship

by | Love

I love working from home, most of the time. The flexibility is so nice – being able to work only once I have all the kids off to school and being able to stop as soon as I see Parker coming up the street as he walks home. When the project schedules for my clients are...
When In Doubt, Bite Your Tongue

When In Doubt, Bite Your Tongue

by | Love

My daughter Kira is 20. By the time I was her age, I had been married for over a year, after walking away from my full-ride scholarship to Washington State University in order to move home and play house with a man no more mature than I was. We were doomed from the...
Babysitter Blues

Babysitter Blues

by | Keeping Marriage Strong

Finding a babysitter is tough. We have been spoiled. By the time we had Parker, Kira was almost 11 years old. By the time I was willing to leave Parker with a babysitter, Kira was not only old enough to babysit but someone who loved him as much as we did. Parker is...
Keeping Family Close

Keeping Family Close

by | Divorce

When my mom was a kid and her parents divorced, she didn’t see her dad for almost a decade…until she was married and had a child of her own (me) and decided to reach out. My husband’s parents divorced and he never built a relationship with his...