What if you are entering 2015 with no resolutions but survival? Or maintaining the status quo? What if there is no big word to live into? Or the word is something you don’t want to share? Like sobriety? Or grief? Just a shout out that if name it and claim it is not...
In a panic about spending, gifts and Christmas? A few last minute basics on keeping Christmas about more than money. Today at MOPS International’s Hello Darling blog, 5 Tactics to Minimize Money Stress Over the Holidays. And a few ideas I didn’t include...
Hi Friends! Happy 2 weeks until Christmas! As we hustle and bustle to get our Christmas ordering, shopping, and wrapping done, how do we help our children not go bizerk over their wish lists for Santa?! At the Hello Darling blog I wrote 5 Ways to Help Kids Avoid...
This feels like one big introduction of friends, a holiday party right here. Because I want you to know these interesting, smart, talented women, and I want them to know you. Some might call this a “Ones to Watch” list, women who are on the rise in their...
I have a friend at church from South Sudan. She watches the world news through the lens of how will this impact “my country” as she refers to her homeland. I listen to her prayer requests and am reminded what a sheltered, comfortable, American life I lead....
It had been the end of a difficult stretch. Not of days or weeks – but months. Sick parents and strained bank accounts left my husband, Derek, and me in a perpetual state of exhaustion. Throw in some major life stressors, and the good times weren’t exactly...
All weekend I’ve been thinking about President Obama’s comments about mothers and the choice to stay home. If you missed this sound bite media frenzy, you can quickly read up on it here. If you are looking for an angry post about why his words were scandalous, you can...
I posted a photo yesterday on Instagram, one of two baby-faced people with the hashtag #childbride to highlight how young and completely different and dorky we looked 17 years ago. We were in our twenties, really not that young, but now looking at the picture it seems...
There are a million reasons plus a million more why I think my daughters are fantastic and straight up beautiful. So I don’t think twice about talking to them about all the parts that make them who they are, like the choices they make, the things they like to play and...
I’ve been talking a bit the last week about joining the Daughter Dare that starts Monday, but I haven’t really explained what it is or why you’d want to. So it’s time to cover the basics and get psyched. First, what is the Daughter Dare? Well, my friend who I adore...
