Raising Daughters

There are a lot of really wonderful things in this world. A lot of joy. A lot of laughter. A lot of miraculous events. If I focus on that, I can get up in the morning, smile at my three little miracles and I can make their day pretty amazing. We can walk out of [...]

I was sitting at the table, my kids chattering around me, the water slides washing families down in screams of happiness all around. 3 years ago, if you had told me that I would have been at my 16 year old niece’s birthday party, the daughter of my birth brother, I would have told you [...]

I am sitting here sobbing, coffee cold, listening to my dog go in and out of the doggy door searching for the invisible squirrel, and I am sobbing. I can’t handle it anymore. This world has gotten to be too much. The hatred, the fear, the negative image projected, the bigotry, the racism, the laws, [...]

Raising daughters an adventure. Raising daughters and caring for dogs at the same times is a challenge I happily love and accept! But this day, the two together pushed me to the edge. We came home from dinner with the school for a fundraiser and they were gone. A deep hole dug under the pavers [...]

During this week, especially, we all need a feel good story that actually reminds us that there are great people out there. When I saw the now viral video of Courtney Bennett’s daughter getting an American Girl Doll with a Prosthetic Leg that was just like her, I may have reacted with some serious waterworks. [...]

See that headline, ‘Read this Viral Post!’? That is what we call click bate in the world of social media. While I am all about bloggers and marketing reps earning the audience they have, and finding the largest one they can as well, I am not about misleading people with stories that are exaggerated or [...]

There is nothing worse than dealing with a child who does not understand homework or is frustrated by it. I went through it last year with my oldest and it was hard on our relationship. So this year, seeing her struggle again with math, I reached out to my neighbors and was blessed with the [...]

Raising daughters, for me, has not been too difficult. Most of the things I deal with... sibling rivalry, I don't like my outfit, that girl at school was mean to me... are pretty typical when raising girls, I think. But being a good mom to little girls does not necessarily mean I will be a [...]