I spent a lot of my maternity leave in 2008 tending to my then newborn, 1 year old and 2 year old and being obsessed with cake shows on television. I wanted to be that cool mom that made...
She was just five years old when I met her, already comfortable with and proud of her self-proclaimed "tomboy" status. My youngest daughter {my step daughter} has never really cared for "girly" things. She naturally gravitated toward LEGOS, Hotwheels,...
"Are you crying? Why are you crying??" were the first words I said to my sister when she called to discuss our mom's diagnosis of breast cancer. I had just gotten off the phone with my mom and was...
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....
A green dinosaur resides on a wall in our family room. He’s been there for a long time, silently watching us play, read, and watch TV in our gathering place. Each December, the children lean their backs against him...
Covid-19 has infected us all but this is AMERICA and we will fight the war of Covid-19 and stand strong. I know schools are closed and restaurants, movies theaters, but that does not mean we can’t try because this...
Okay, 2020 is officially - a giant pile of poo. Yeah, I said what I said.
We've only made it to the halfway point and we have a pandemic, social unrest unseen since the civil rights era, economic recession, murder...
I realized something today, as my five year old youngest child confidently stepped out of our minivan and walked through the doors of his preschool:: his backpack fits him now.
I bought him that backpack when he was just barely...
Houston Guides + Resources
Top 10 Reasons to Call Houston Home
Life in Houston, Texas has become an unexpected discovery of culture and community. After living here for almost 14 years, I have compiled the...
