I read one time that in an effort to minimize stress and anxiety, you should only have one major life event in a year....
It’s easy, a little too easy, to get bogged down with the day-to-day aspects of life and fall into a rut. Sometimes just getting...
It was all about the title for our March book club selection, A Stranger in the House, by Shari Lapena. A little intrigue, a...
Cockroaches.
The word is enough to get my anxiety pulsing; to set my heart racing; and to make me break out in a sweat.
I would...
We all know that having a baby is completely life altering. Those first few months are tough. They are exhausting. You don’t have good...
First off, it wasn't a New Year's resolution. I don't like setting myself up for failure, so I never resolve to do anything that...
The other day my daughter came into our room to wake me up for the day and greeted me by saying, "Mommy, you forgot...
I've never been extremely comfortable at the gym.
For me, it feels a bit like visiting someone's house. Not really a stranger, but maybe a...
Let me just say, I have never been one for New Year’s resolutions. I am the person who gets annoyed by all the new...
Like many military spouses, my husband traveled frequently when our first daughter was born.
Often when he would come home, our daughter would treat him like a...
We’ve been at our new duty station for a little over seven months now, so we have passed the “adjustment period” of a typical...
With St. Patrick's Day right around the corner, I'm sharing my family's recipe for Shepherd's Pie. This is the real deal - trust me....
Military Lifestyle
Normalized Overwhelm
Over the Edge
I was standing in the kitchen, washing dishes and doing mental math: I was trying to figure out how to get the...
