Consequences

As a mother of two young boys, “consequence” is a word used regularly in our house. For example, the consequence of eating your dinner is that if it is a dessert night, well, you get some.  If you don’t eat your dinner, you don’t get any yummy cookies and cream ice...

Life is Funny!

Every year around this time, I get sick.  It’s been no different this year. For five days I wrestled with a 101° fever, body aches, headaches, a horrendous cough and more.  To say I was miserable is being nice.  Just ask my husband, Lee! Thankfully, Lee and our two...

Mama

I found this poem I wrote in 2009 and I thought it was appropos to the upcoming weekend’s celebration of Mother’s Day. I love being a mom and I’m lucky enough to have my mom with me this year. Unconditional love is what mom’s are all about.  We...

Teaching Moments

I think the instruction manual was lost in the births of my two children.  They both came into this world without a handbook on good parenting. Pregnancy was difficult enough…now I’ve got to know what to do with these little ones?  WHAT?!?!?! How in the world am I...

Happy Birthday, Chase!

It’s hard to fathom that my baby turns five-years-old today!  Crazy.  It seems like yesterday I was impatiently waiting to deliver this little boy into the world amid the stresses of working, raising a family and trying to keep this vehicle called life in the middle...