We've all been there. Many times.
One minute, our kids are happy campers and the next minute, it's an epic meltdown. It might happen at...
My children are what we like to call “willful."
Sometimes, this comes across as a toddler decisively screaming for the Elmo fork. Other times, we...
I have some amazing friends, and they live all over the place. I want to be a better friend to them, no matter where...
I lived my entire childhood in one town. Then, I went to college less than 30 minutes away. To say that I feel ill-equipped...
I think it's great how "sensory processing" has made its way into everyday conversations, classroom activities, and mainstream life. A decade or two ago,...
I recently wrote about losing a dear friend to cancer. Knowing that she was dying, my friend went through her scrapbooks and photo albums,...
Across the U.S., school districts are desperate to hire additional substitute teachers.
Some districts and states have gone so far as to lower or...
There’s a meme that’s been around for a while that says, “How do you talk to girls about their bodies? You don’t!”
When I...
In the Broadway musical “Rent,” the cast sings a song about measuring time in "Seasons of Love." As military families we are familiar with...
The photos were amazing. One friend, fresh off a PCS move to Germany, shared how she’s so quickly decorated and made their place a...
While military life definitely has its sacrifices and hardships, there are many things I am going to miss about being a military spouse.
My...
“A feeling normally as individual as the ache of separation from those one loves, suddenly became a feeling in which all shared alike and,...
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...
