Sometimes

It was recently “Bell Let’s Talk Day” and the Bell videos talk about how just one person asking how someone was doing, changed things for them. Suggesting that it just takes one person declaring that they’re there for someone can change the struggling person and make everything better. But here’s Read more

The Struggle Is Real

I’m struggling today. It started in the strangest way.We’re currently in a lockdown, which is fine with our family because, quite honestly, we don’t really do anything other than one activity (a private, family class of Mixed Martial Arts one hour, two days a week). We’ve basically been living the Read more

A Love Letter to My Odie

A long time ago, when I was just nine months old, my parents got a nine month old mixed breed puppy named Sara. She was my best friend, sleeping under my crib and welcoming me home from school, following me to my friends house and waiting for me to walk Read more

A Reminder this Mother’s Day 2020

Mother’s Day:  a celebration honoring the mother of the family, as well as motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society. This Mother’s Day, in 2020, is unlike any other.So many of us can’t be with our mothers.Some of us are more used to distance separating us from Read more

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These Are The Days…

You always hear “these are the days”… but you don’t know until you do. These moments, like the smell of a newborn head, are things you wish you could bottle and save to open and feel another day.  You never want to forget them. Time goes on, the children grow Read more

Live and Breathe Military?

This is something I wrote in 2017. I had taken Last Born to my friend’s Basic Training graduation because we lived close and I could go and show my support of her, and this conversation with another graduates’ grandmother happened. It was something I couldn’t get off my mind so Read more

Comparison is the Thief of Joy

Theodore Roosevelt is credited for the quote “comparison is the thief of joy”.I’m not sure the background behind the quote, and I’m not going to dig into the history, but it is definitely relevant not only as a human but as a parent, and especially as a homeschooling parent. Comparing Read more

A Light At The End

When you’re a parent to little people, whether it’s one or three or six, it’s a big adjustment. You go from having all of the space as your own, or yours to share with your spouse, and suddenly there is so much stuff! Babies The amount of things we buy Read more

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