Evolving In Your Role As a Parent

Evolving In Your Role As a Parent

You realize your parenting role of a teenage girl must evolve when you are the one noticing the boys checking her out. I admit it freaked me out. I mean this is my baby. My beautiful baby. My beautiful baby who turns the head of everyone she walks by. Ever since she...
Holiday Blues

Holiday Blues

For some strange reason, this has been a very difficult holiday season for me so far. I have felt very homesick, missing my mom, missing Idaho where I used to live, and missing my good friends back home. I suppose it is probably because we are not going anywhere and...
Creating a Strong Family

Creating a Strong Family

Creating a strong family unit can be a definite challenge in today’s society. Our children’s friends have such an influence on their thoughts and feelings. As parents though, we have to realize that we still have the power and influence to be the stronger force. Our...
Happy Birthday Mom

Happy Birthday Mom

Happy Birthday Mom My mom would have had her 60th birthday today. I have been sitting here contemplating, trying to decide the best way to commemorate my mom’s birthday. I have decided that nothing I can say or do can possibly describe how it feels to be without the...
Photographs of Memories

Photographs of Memories

I think making memories with our children is one of the most important things that we can do in their childhood. Whether it is establishing family traditions around the holidays or a simple cherished bedtime routine, it is important for children to know and feel their...