Parenting Wisdom

What three words would you want to leave to your children? This past summer, I was chatting parenting skills with a cousin of mine. She mentioned how each morning, they do words of affirmation. It's become so routine for her...

6:31am, the sky is black, Stone Temple Pilots are on the radio, I'm headed to work, and I see a falling star. All I can think to wish is that my baby boy is ok. This is when I...

The weather is finally leaning towards summer, and I can’t wait. Don’t get me wrong; spring is nice with the flowers, the sun, and Easter. However, spring also brings rain, dirt, wind, and overall inconsistent weather days. Maybe it’s...

So, today I met my foster love’s Mom & Dad. It was a complete accident, more like a total screw-up by the contracted company that holds his weekly visits in their office. And we’ve encountered screw-ups there before—kinda ugly ones....

Moms, hear me out. Take a solo vacation. Seriously. It's amazing. Whenever I travel without my husband or kids, people assume it must be lonely, or that they weren't able to tag along for some reason, or (probably) that...

A few days ago, I came across a headline that read "BREAKING: Texas Man With Disability Dies After Doctors Refuse To Treat Him for COVID-19." Having a child with a rare disease and a disability, I had to find...

It was that time of year, time to complete the annual self-assessment at work. I had to develop the results that successfully summarize all the great things I did during 2020 and what I hope to achieve in 2021....

Growing up, there were times when we would think, "When I'm a mom, I won't do that," because of course at 7, then 13, then 17, we both always knew best. Boy, were we WRONG, and honestly, both couldn’t...

Words. Written. Spoken. Muttered. Whispered. Yelled. Signed. Shouted. Sung. Silence. Words and how we use them are some of the most profound ways we can impact others. If words weren't so important, there wouldn't be so many memes about words...

As I gathered my curling iron, gel, comb, and some clips, George said to me with laughter in his eyes, “this isn’t exactly the way I had hoped you would bond.” I then curled my sixteen-year-old stepson’s hair. Mom of...