Winter break or Christmas vacation – or whatever you call the beautiful block of school-free time during the holiday season – never falls at the perfect time for families. When…
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Why is middle school so hard? And why you should count yourself lucky if your kids move on having formed a bond with at least one teacher or adult.
When you live with anxiety and you desperately want your kids not to have to – how that manifests in family life and why talking about it is so important.
Shortly after giving birth to our first daughter, my husband looked deep into my bloodshot eyes (the whites of which were now red from the hemorrhaging that had occurred while…
Sorry folks! No partridge, no pear tree, and not a single turtle dove. No swans a swimming or maids a milking, and not one lady dancing (let alone nine). Truth…
Don’t you just love a big family wedding? “Absolutely!” says my nephew, when the minister asks if he takes this woman to be his lawfully wedded wife. His answer is…
Whether it was Aaaaaugh! or Eeeeeek! or Ooooooh! no juxtaposition of letters would have done that shriek justice. Hot iron? Puncture wound? Home intruder? Those were the thoughts I remember…
Living with allergies – food, pets, and environmental – isn’t always easy, but it’s something a lot of families are doing.
That first dance as husband and wife and how it can set the stage for a pretty awesome partnership.
As far as my husband Scott is concerned, one of the most desirable qualities about his life partner is that she’s frugal. Romantic, I know. “You’re not cheap,” he’ll insist.…
Wait, what just happened? For a very long time, that’s what I asked the first week of January, when the holiday season was finally, thankfully over – or at least…
For about a year after we moved into the house we live in now, I had a peculiar habit that to this day, no one in my family knows about.…