What are you grateful for today? Share . . .
As I sat patiently waiting for the meeting to begin, a friend who knows both my children asked, “Which one is your favorite? I mean, I know I’m my mom’s favorite, but every parent has a favorite, right?” His question didn’t surprise me because my children have asked it too. It usually comes after a […]
It’s amazing the difference a day, or a few days for that matter, can make in my skewed perception. “I’m not happy.” I said sternly before we put the kids to bed. I said it to him, to myself, and it was about how I was feeling in that moment, not an assessment of my […]
There are many days in my married life where I don’t share a single genuine or meaningful thought with the man I am married to. Most of those days are the days we are “grinding”. The days that we go to work filled with what the world expects from us and prepared to deliver. And […]
Hi Friends, I’m having a tough time with this and I hope you can help me. As I do the following: Listen to incessant talking. Drive the children from one very important practice to another. Rush to fix dinner. Rush to clean up dinner. Complete homework. Aid in studying for tests. Supervise screen time, shower […]
We are home now from our two-week vacation at the Jersey shore. All of us, my husband, two children, and I, understand what an amazing privilege it was to have the ways and means to stop, relax, and reset. And yet, the reset for the children has been a bigger challenge than I imagined. Here […]
Like a breath of fresh air, new friends can come into your life and ignite a fire you forgot you had. They can remind you of who you are, who you were as you share your stories, and who you want to be. It’s an energy that we, as women, can inspire within each other. […]
My friends, since the death of my father my heart is both full to capacity from all the love I am receiving and broken beyond repair from the loss of my dad. I haven’t had a good cry since the day he died and the further time moves from that moment, the further his memory […]
These days since my father’s death I’ve been moving through life at my usual pace. Seeing me from the outside doesn’t look much different than before, but my insides feel crumpled. It’s as if my insides were a sheet of paper crumpled up into a small ball that has been laid flat on the table […]
My friends, I am starting to see hope and feel gratitude after my father’s death. See, I have made many mistakes in my life, however, choosing to spend the rest of my life with the man I call my husband is not one of them. As time moves over the wound of losing my father, […]
My friends, it was a cold and windy morning on the 29th of January when my children said goodbye to their Poppy. It had only been 4 short months since he sat at their soccer games cheering from the sidelines. 5 months since he sat in church watching his grandson receive the sacrament of eucharist. […]