Mother’s Day can be a touchy subject for some families. Blended families, for example, often struggle with the tension of celebrating both stepmom and biological mom. Other families deal with the pain of grief at Mother’s Day, facing the loss of a mother or child....
My husband, Robbie, and I have struggled with communication from day one of our marriage. His 32-year military career didn’t exactly encourage “sharing.” He always said, “If the Army wanted me to have feelings, they would have issued me some.” That didn’t help with...
Life is busy for everyone during the child raising years. School sports games, band concerts, and extracurricular activities have a way of taking over the family calendar. This is especially true for blended families because we have all the normal family busyness...
A few years ago, there was a Facebook fad going around. It was a friend quiz called “How Well Do You Know Me?” After miserably failing the tests of several of my closest friends, I sent my own in return. To my gratification, they also failed. So all was fair in...
When my first child was born, a certain quote became very important to me. I found it in a stash of newspaper clippings in a box of odds and ends that was passed to me after my grandmother died. I had this little clipping for years, but in my first year of motherhood,...
