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The Weight We Pile On Ourselves

Dear Mom, I’ve felt the weight of the things you are feeling. I have been in that hard place. Maybe the details are different, but […]

In honor of finally finishing the task of sorting through Mom’s mementos and cleaning my ENTIRE house, I thought I would share a book excerpt […]

Adulting family non-fiction travel #summer

I feel sad during the summer. Pretty much every summer, but increasingly more as the years have gone on. I know why; I just don’t […]

My life is just the way I dreamed it would be when I was a little girl. My life is nothing at all the way […]

Step 1: Give notice- This step not only gives your child fair warning that the day of reckoning is coming, but is also gives you time […]

family history non-fiction #genealogy

I suppose you could say that I am my family’s historian. Much to my husbands chagrin, I have boxes and boxes of photos, newspaper clippings, […]

It seems like a lifetime ago that I held this tiny baby girl of mine in my arms for the very first time. For her, […]

The funeral home people had arrived. They came in their suits with solemn faces. They made their condolences. Mom’s bedroom was in the back of […]

As a homeschool mom for many years, I can appreciate the hoarding mentality. I truly can. I have a pretty eclectic collection of items that […]

I don’t want to brag, but I have totally nailed this part of Proverbs 31. Seriously, I have 3 teenagers under my roof right now, […]