I left them with no question of my love. I know this, because I had catalogued each hug, each kiss, each whispered “I love...
I walked into her room to find her sitting up happily. With poop in each hand, she smiled a big toothy grin at me....
When I found out a year ago that I was pregnant, I vowed not to be one of those women who completely changes when...
Our house was hit hard this year. It started around Halloween and is still haunting us in the New Year. I don’t think we...
My first Christmas gift of the season came a couple weeks early, at a play date with a dear friend and our kids. As...
I proudly wear many hats in my family. I am the cook, the house cleaner, the chauffeur, and, sometimes, I am even the doctor....
Everybody gets heart eyes for Christmas. I mean, I can see why. The lights, the music, the childlike expectation of Christmas morning. Christmas is...
Like so many other girls, I grew up with hunting but not as a hunter. I knew my uncles went turkey hunting Thanksgiving morning....
It’s a new year, and many of us are making new goals and resolutions for 2018. I’m a planner, and I love to make...
Last spring, I ran into the grocery store with my youngest child to pick up some last-minute supplies for dinner before heading to school...
I had never planned to have children outside of the United States. The hope for an overseas assignment always seemed like a long shot...
I grew up living the life of a "military brat." My dad served in the Air Force for twenty years. We used the term "military brat"...
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...
