THE JOURNAL

Mom to mom I’d like to share with you a great lesson in parenting that I learned yesterday… It was a smidge irrational to believe that my sweet baby was going to stay a sweet baby forever. She was bound to disobey, test my patience, lie, scream at the top of her lungs in an […]

I mentioned last week that 2012 was going to be the year that I finally write down my goals and maybe by sharing them with you; I would be held accountable to these goals.  Yay!, for people keeping me accountable. Ya’ll rock!  You know what? You’re already helping me because when I sat down to […]

“Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.” ~ Epicurus Hhhhhhhhhhh {inhaling}{deep breath} {sigh of relief} Did you feel that? That is my crazy, but perfectly designed year of 2011 being closed in the history books. I am going to index the pages of this year under the keyword, “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”, but accurately […]

Instead of being up to my eyeballs in wrapping paper and Christmas ribbon like I should be this week, I am following Addisyn around with a box of tissues and a thermometer.  By the way, I much prefer the former, but this bad case of bronchitis comes with a perk for me: all she wants […]

I took a moment to gather my thoughts then proceeded with caution. “It’s about the smoking thing…” I began calmly, before Stacy cut in. “I know it’s a nasty habit,” she said, “I plan on quitting after the deployment.” “YES!” I thought to myself as a flood of relief poured through my body.  “That’s great […]