It took me 17 years but the longer I parent the more I have come to the conclusion that Parents Need to Be a United Front When it Comes to Raising Kids. I'll admit it- I want to be the fun one. I want to be that parent I think my kids crave. Unfortunately when it comes to raising and disciplining my kids I am hungry for their approval, as my husband who could not be more my polar opposite, … [Read more...]
Watching my husband give our son a hug-makes me fall in love with him all over again
I'll be honest when my kids ask me to pinpoint the first time they crawled, the first word they said, or any of their firsts I struggle to try and remember and I have *been known* to fudge the truth about my memory of their early years because well to be blunt...IT SUCKED. I remember nothing. I feel like their infancies are these huge periods of time where everything felt fuzzy. I was a miserable … [Read more...]
Teaching my Kids about the Power of Forgiveness: 5 Steps to Embrace and Forgive
Many years ago I remember watching Oprah (or as I like to call her mama O) talking about the power of forgiveness and that when you forgive someone you are not doing it for them, rather you are doing it for you. I recall hearing her recount a story of seeing this person she was mad at walking down the street and when she noticed how happy this person was, just the sight of her in all her glorified … [Read more...]
Older dads- this younger wife’s perspective aka 5 reasons older dads ROCK
My husband is 54 years old. Our son is seven- which means when our son is graduating high school his dad will be 64. These are the facts, and I'm Okay with the facts or at least I THOUGHT I was okay until I read an article with the title Will you be there for your kids 40th birthday and for a SPLIT Second I began to sweat. Does that thought make me nervous? Am I worried that my husband won't live … [Read more...]
Sometimes men need a good frying pan whack in the head- no?!
I'm sitting behind this couple on the plane-they're probably in their early thirties; she's got a rather large baby bump and is wrestling with a very fidgety, unhappy toddler around two years old. The toddler is quite audibly, based on his frantic shrieking, highly agitated- and the mom looks utterly exhausted, stressed oh and did I mention she was pregnant. This toddler is quite literally sitting … [Read more...]