May is both Food Allergy Awareness Month and Celiac Awareness Month. It is also the beginning of PCS season for many military families. Moving...
This afternoon my husband left for the “undreth” time. This is a short stint, just two sleeps as we refer to it. After 17...
Deployment is hard. It's messy. It's unnerving and overwhelming. It's chaos and calamity wrapped up in the ever changing emotions of kids and parents...
Although I can't speak for all military families, I feel I can safely say that once the majority of military families are at a...
A permanent change of station (PCS) is difficult for many children. It’s difficult as a parent to watch your military child feel so many...
I've been an occupational therapist for 15 years. During most of that time, I have worked with older adults who are recovering from strokes,...
Today was a yes/and day.
You know the ones. The days, weeks, months, seasons.
I first grabbed onto the yes/and idea after hearing it explained by...
I wanted to tell you about a devotional I read recently: The Beauty of Motherhood. It’s one I wish I had years ago, but...
I'm currently recovering from a broken leg and ankle. I lost my grip on the playground and heard a steady crunch as I collapsed...
No one has tried to take away my birthday, but I'm taking it back anyway. Birthdays seem to change as we get older and...
Vocabulary is not just a worksheet that comes home from school. It comes in all areas of life and is so important in teaching...
I dreaded my six week postpartum appointment. I was barely sleeping, my body looked like a deflated Halloween costume, and I cried at the...
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...
