When I think about all the pluses of Raleigh, Charlotte, Cleveland, Salt Lake, Richmond, and Nashville, I often overlook the one thing they don’t have- sweet friends…… Read More Learning to Love the Current Adventure
I’d like to think that we can all spread a little bit of good. We don’t need to do something spectacular to spread good. We can start small.
Parenthood has a way of knocking you on your butt… over an over again. Just when you think you have the hang of it… you realize…You don’t. It’s a daily exercise in humility.… Read More What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger… Right?
I feel a little bit unprepared to raise a daughter. I know this sounds strange, being female myself you’d think this would come naturally. No. Raising a daughter is baffling.
I’m going to own being a stay at home mom. It was a choice I made. I wanted to spend these first few years with my kids, I wanted to be there when they woke up and when they went to bed, and during all the moments in between.
… Read More Stop Saying “Just” a Mom
Before we had kids people asked us “when are you going to have kids?” They’d casually pop the question into a conversation, almost as if they thought we’d never thought of having kids and they were presenting us with a brand new concept. Once we had Harry Potter, people immediately started asking when we were… Read More Lucky Number Three
Whatever you do, admit to yourself that you aren’t a rock, you aren’t an island, and you do feel pain (and maybe even cry)… too far?
Prayer takes humility and it takes admitting that you cannot successfully navigate motherhood alone… cause newsflash… you can’t.… Read More Parenting Advice??
I’d like to think that when my kids are grown and gone I will remember the good times, and not the bad.
I’d like to think that I’ll remember our family vacations, holidays, and reading stories to them at bedtime, instead of the near constant fighting that can be life with littles. … Read More Remember the Good
“Why do you still dress like you’re in college, you wear a lot of BYU shirts!” Cause college was awesome? Cause we should sport our Cougar blue every day of the year? Cause fancy shirts don’t work with my life?… Read More Is There Such a Thing as TOO Much School Spirit?
Cultivating Chaos 