How is the summer more than half over? This has been a strange summer of neither full-on pandemic nor normal…

I like order, structure, calendars, lists, and schedules. Not so much because I have to have it, as because my…

The last year has been the strangest sensation of time standing still and then suddenly flying by. I keep thinking…

Earlier this year I signed my kids up for a three-hour horse club/class half an hour from home. While I…

I still can’t quite believe it’s May. Despite the unseasonably cold April and the unexpected heatwave making it feel like…

I’m glad that spring is well on the way but it’s been quite a bit colder than I would like…

At our writers’ group last night we were talking and lamenting a bit the trials of the last year. One…

I grew up in the culture of the superhero mom. Somehow from the positive benefits of the feminist movement came…

March is a crazy busy month in our family and this year has been no exception. We’ve begun outside activities…

Green has been my favorite color since I was about 10. I don’t know what it was that produced the…

  I am a pretty low maintenance person. My makeup routine during my high school years was minimal, unless I…

photo courtesy of Twinkle Photo   I was recently able to share with my MOPS group some of my thoughts…

Last month I shared that our family would be embarking on a first time ever no spend month. I was…

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the different names of God that appear in the Bible, especially the Hebrew…

It’s the end of the year. When holiday sales declare “You NEED this and if you don’t buy it now,…

  I told myself this year would be different. I would be less stressed out and I’d engage more. But…

I spend money every day. You probably do too. Sometimes it’s boring things like rent, mortgage and utilities, or necessary…

My social media feed is full of it. Moms lamenting peeing their pants and the belly that just hangs and…