Our family tradition for the last ten years has been to spend the weekend before Christmas with my husband’s family…

“Please take off your pajamas and put on your underwear.” I told my daughter, as I tried to finish getting…

Yesterday many Americans celebrated Thanksgiving and hopefully amid all of the food and early black Friday shopping we actually found…

“Stay!” I yell to my daughter as she advances across a parking lot. “Stay!” I call to my son as…

The evenings were actually quiet. Almost too quiet. For the first time in our almost ten years of married life,…

I always hated visiting cemeteries as a child. The people I loved weren’t there, so why go? But as an…

I’m always fighting to be heard. In my home I compete with my preschooler and my infant son for my…

It’s official; I am a published author. As We Wait is now available for purchase from Amazon.com. I still can’t…

I should be headed to bed right now. But I couldn’t without sharing my excitement. Sometime tomorrow my first book…

When my son was born we lived in fear that he would be as terrible a sleeper as his big…