Category: Parenting

When Life Gives You Lemons-Make Soup

Hello Friends, I hope this post finds you all healthy and happy as we are having some trouble with that ourselves. We were sick AGAIN last week. This time all six of us came down with the flu. I feel as if I lost an entire week of my life. Looking back, however, on all […]

Dear Defeated Mom,

“It was just a miserable day,” I cried as tears threatened to run down my cheeks. I stared at my husband, who was hundreds of miles away, through my cell phone as I tried to explain why I was about to cry. It came in a long stream of words, none very specific, not nearly […]

Loving My Opposite Child

We have the same blond hair and blue eyes. We have the same strong independent spirit, fierce stubbornness, and annoying bossiness, but that is where the similarities end. Loving My Opposite Child She is a girl of extremes, all sunshine and rainbows or all thunder and storm clouds. I take a more middle of […]

What To Do When You don’t Want To Share

I looked from my 9 year old son to the last brownie on the plate. I wanted that brownie. I had plans for it, which included a cup of coffee and uninterrupted quiet time. I really really wanted that brownie. I glanced at my son’s hopeful expression, “Can I have the last one?”. ‘NO!’ was […]

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