It is a Beautiful and Simple Life

It is a Beautiful and Simple Life

Dear Friends, of all the things I hoped and wished for in my life, simple was not on my list. As a young girl I wanted a loving life where I felt seen and heard. As a teenager I wanted a fun-filled life filled with excitement and adventure. As a twenty something I wanted an […]

Unbiased: The Kindest and Truest Want For My Children

Unbiased: The Kindest and Truest Want For My Children

Maybe the best I can hope for is for my children to experience the happiness I longed for as a child. Maybe my kindest and truest want will be for them to walk through this life without the biases I was brought up with, the layers of conditioned learning of what was right and what […]

How To Deal With The Boy Who Always Says No

How To Deal With The Boy Who Always Says No

Hi Friends! I have two children. Two amazing, intelligent, loving, caring, and kind children. And yet, in some areas they couldn’t be anymore different. When a new challenge is presented to the two of them, my daughter is strong-willed and confident while my son is tentative and afraid of failure. And every time this scenario […]

The Beautiful Lie

The Beautiful Lie

My friends, people tell you that motherhood is fantastic ~ a beautiful experience that transcends all other achievements a woman can strive to accomplish. We see images of mothers “muddling” through the mundane with both a grimace and a smile just blessed to be in the thick of it. Every once in a while we […]

The Day My Children Said Goodbye To Their Grandfather

The Day My Children Said Goodbye To Their Grandfather

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. […]

Little Eyes Are Watching Me Through This Incredibly Painful Time

Little Eyes Are Watching Me Through This Incredibly Painful Time

Life is but a combination of fleeting moments strung together to create hours, days, years, and decades. As I sit next to my dying father, I am running through the combination of fleeting moments from our life together. I remember less of what he said to me and more of how he made me feel. […]

Husband, my Love, All They Want is You

Husband, my Love, All They Want is You

My friends, this is a story about my one true love, my family. My husband and I have always taken off the week between Christmas and New Years, it’s tradition we started once the kids entered school.  It became our week to relax and recharge together.  However, when we started our tree service, the seasonal […]

How to Separate Helpless from Worthless, a Work in Progress

How to Separate Helpless from Worthless, a Work in Progress

My friends, I stopped doing my house work. The dishes from New Years Eve sat in the sink until January 5th. I walked over the same small plastic straw wrapper umpteen times without any regard. I devised a special laundry system that involved leaving all clean laundry in baskets . . . unfolded. When I […]

A Perfect Little Girl

A Perfect Little Girl

To all my girlfriends raising daughters ~ People say she is an old soul. They comment about her using words like remarkable, amazing, and self-assured. I’ve always said, “She just came to us like that.” As if, in some sweet offhanded way, we barely noticed her emotional maturity at the age of 10. The truth […]