It happened again. She told me that she likes my hair in a bun. Then she added, or pulled back in a headband. I don't think she likes it in its upright, extended position. Loose and curly, it's sometimes...
The first time that I was aware we had a problem, my beautiful and perfect daughter was two. After beginning a new school, I realized that she spent more than an hour each day standing by her backpack with...
I've said this before in an introduction paragraph, but I have a really great husband. Yes, sometimes marriage is hard and we need to have hate dates, but all of our fights have been over silly or inconsequential things....
Moms, we can change the world for good simply by talking with and teaching our children about racism. We have to speak up. We have to have uncomfortable conversations. We can't assume that our kids will "learn it in...
I've been asking my son what he thinks about COVID and how it's changing his daily routine. I see all of these memes about what kids will recall from this moment in time when they are older. Well, here's...
There are all kinds of things tossed your way when you begin the journey to becoming a foster parent—and afterward. You are required to take hours of training both in-person and online in order to earn and maintain your...
November is National Adoption Month. And while you always hear the stories of children adopted after months and years in foster care, international adoption, and other successful adoption stories, stories about adult adoptees are nearly nonexistent, which is why...
Like most Americans, the anniversary of September 11th strikes viscerally. For some of you, you may have just been in grade school. For others, you had kids far from your reach. For some, you were in college.
I was in...
Let me preface this by first saying, there was a time when I would have been the absolute WORST person to be writing something like this. Truly. Being a full-time working mother is one of the biggest challenges I could...
Unless you've been living under a rock for the past 10 years, you are fully aware of ABC's hit reality show The Bachelor and all of it's long-stemmed rose glory. There is a little something for everyone...romance, drama, humor,...