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God Created Them For This Moment!
“Don’t feel sorry for or fear for your kids because the world they are going to grow up in is ...
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What Lane Are You Living In?
I live in the Atlanta area and I am sure that most of you have heard of our traffic nightmares ...
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The Parable of the Dragonfly
My husband’s aunt passed away last week and while the service was short it was profound. There is a parable ...
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Let’s Talk Gear! Hiking, Camping & Outdoor Gear That Is!
Some people get excited about going shoe shopping and I do as well! Just a touch different, hiking shoe different ...
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I’m a Mom Raising Kids in Generation Lonely
Let me let you in on a little secret—very few people know my heart. Thousands of friends and followers on ...
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The Summer My Gen Alpha Got To Experience Summer As A Gen X’er!
I was truly nervous this year as the pandemic virtually shut down any summer vacation plans for our family. My ...
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Has Quarantine Life Changed Us And The Way We Behave Toward Others?
Okay hear me out for a minute. I live in the South and we are known for "Southern Hospitality", but ...
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Savannah Bucket List & Why You Should Add It To Your List!
I now have a new Top 5 towns that I love, Savannah! We only spent a day and a half ...
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A Weekend In Hendersonville NC
In December we decided to do a weekend trip sans toddler to Hendersonville, NC. Hendersonville is a city just outside ...
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Why I Won’t Have A Conversation About Race With My 3 Year Old
The other morning I was curious if my three year old would even understand the color of skin. I asked ...
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What Is Your Balance In Your Emotional Bank Account?
What Is Your Balance In Your Emotional Bank Account? Sounds like an odd question but if you think about it ...
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Signs Of A Healthy Relationship & What ISN’T
What Are the Differences Between Healthy and Unhealthy Love? I found this from one of my Facebook notes 12 years ...
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Depression, Not A Dirty Little Secret
The other night during the Grammy’s, Demi Lovato was up to sing and had to restart the song because emotions ...
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Crock-Pot Chipotle Chicken Soup
I have found another winner! This Chicken Soup made in the Crock-Pot is not only amazing, but so easy! Monday's ...
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Time To Dance
Anyone else feel their life in the morning is absolute chaos? Not just me? Good to know because this was ...
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Top Parenting Questions Googled
They say parenting doesn't come with a handbook and I am going to disagree. While it isn't in handbook form, ...
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I Don’t See You
To the mom that ______, I don’t See you So many posts these days that have “I See You” and ...
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D Is For Holiday’s! Wait, What?
Dysfunctional: a : not functioning properly : marked by impaired or abnormal functioning b : characterized by abnormal or unhealthy ...
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Shop Small Business!
Small Business owners are the backbone the country was built on. This Christmas season let’s show our appreciation and Shop ...
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Listen With Intent
You hear but do you listen? Stephen Covey Wrote “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they ...
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Your Best Life Now!
Does your past cripple you from moving forward with your future? Do you look at generations before you and feel ...
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Making Healthy Meals Happen for You & The Family
As a mom, it can be challenging to focus on health and fitness goals. One of the keys to achieving ...
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Overexposed
When someone says the word overexposed I think of film, a bad picture. The film was exposed to too much ...
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Terrible Two’s Or Unrealistic Expectations?
Ahh Terrible Two’s what every parent dreads. Just kidding that is when they are teenagers right? I personally don’t believe ...
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For Shame For Shame
Parenting, one of the toughest jobs you will ever have. There is no handbook or Dial A Parenting Coach Hotline, ...
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The Perfect Customizable Baby Shower Invitations! Baby-Q or Giraffe which to choose!
This is a sponsored post for Basic Invite. However, all opinions expressed are 100% my own. Everyone that knows me ...
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What Does Your Name-Tag Say?
There are so many names we can be given and give ourselves. The positive names are what we strive for ...
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The ABC’s of Me
I was recently nominated by The Mom Blog WI, (you can find her blog here,) to do the ABC's ...
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The Gift Of Awesome!
I struggle every year with what to get my nieces and nephews for Christmas. They are all fortunate that if ...
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15 Steps To Handling An Angry Little Person
We are going through the temper tantrum stage currently and I have read several wonderful pieces on dealing with anger ...
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Not Broken
See the kid in the picture? That is me, just a child who didn’t have a voice, or so she ...
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Fall Bucket List!
Fall is hands down my favorite season and I am a huge fan of anything that embraces it. What's not ...
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A Note To My Son & His Future Love
I may be your first love but I am grooming you for your love of a lifetime. I will teach ...
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The Left Shoe Movement
The Left Shoe movement was created to assist parents to remember they have an extremely valuable and precious life in ...
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I’m Your Mama Not Your Friend
A few weeks there was a festival in Colorado called 4/20. I am pretty sure that anyone that watches the ...
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Would You Know What To Do If Your Child Was Choking?
The most common cause of nonfatal choking in young children is food. At least one child dies from choking on ...
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Not My Childhood
Charles Dickens said, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Parenting is the easiest and ...
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Life, One Lesson At A Time
I was thinking over the weekend of a few key things I have started taking to heart recently. I am ...
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Lil Man’s First Birthday!
I can’t believe the time has passed as quickly as it has. One year already and it feels like we ...
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The Day The Devil Knocked & The Door Was Answered
Our greatest fear is that our children will lose the battle with their addiction. For some families, this fear has ...
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Breast Milk Diaries III
January first was the last day I pumped. I am still breastfeeding at night and in the morning if Coop ...
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How Things Have Changed, & I Am Okay With That!
My husband asked me if I was okay with the way we are spending New Years Eve. Sitting on the ...
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Magic Reindeer Food!
Magic Reindeer Food Printout INGREDIENTS Raw uncooked oats Sugar cookie sprinkles Plastic sandwich or snack baggies Ribbon in festive holiday ...
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Back To Basics!
I wrote this some time ago and feel it is appropriate to resurrect. I wrote this the day after the ...
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Breast Milk Diaries
As I sit here at work ( returning to work after maternity leave )eating my lunch and logging my milk ...
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Santa’s Phone Number!
Yes it works and they can leave a message with what they want for Christmas!!! 🎄🎁🎄 ...
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Come On Girls! Don’t Fail Me NOW!
I have been battling low supply for a couple of weeks now. I was pumping anywhere between eighteen to twenty ...
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The Fragile Generation
My generation was the last that learned to play in the street. We were the first to play video games, ...
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Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Day 10/15
Mark your calendar and please join me in remembrance ...
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A Time to Celebrate, A Time to Mourn
Today marks two years since we lost our first, my husband’s birthday and our rainbow baby’s eight months old. While ...
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Hate, a Condition of the Heart
Like so many I woke up this morning to tragic news once again hitting the heart of America. A lone ...
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It Is Okay To Say No!
After having Coop I meet some lovely ladies that were also new mom's. The conversation came up about visitors, people ...
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Baby’s First Cold
Well this has been fun! Coop starting showing symptoms Saturday night and it went downhill in a hurry. I suppose ...
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Being a Mama Past & Present
This weekend we had dinner with friends of ours that are expecting. During our conversation the topic of being a ...
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Raising a David in a World of Goliaths
In an era before technology we were forced to be creative, inventive, and close to one another. We had a ...
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Returning to Work After Baby
Returning to work after having a baby is a difficult and emotional challenge that many moms must face. I had ...
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God Why Does Everyone Else Get A Baby?
Since writing about my Rainbow Baby I have had several women reach out and thank me for sharing my story ...
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Baby Repeat?
To the mama’s that don’t know what to say when asked “Are you ready for another one”? after trying so ...
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Sleep! What is that again!
Seems to be the most mentioned topic in any conversation for new parents. I can’t begin to tell you how ...
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The V Word!
To vax or not to vax that is the question. Every parent dreads v-day! The thought of your lil one ...
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Sex After Baby
Not sure about you but sex was the last thing on my mind! New baby, no sleep, your body is ...
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Post Baby Body & Mind
You give birth and you still look six months pregnant! That was how I looked at least. Not sure what ...
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Postpartum What?
Okay ladies and gents it is a topic no one wants to talk about but it is a fact of ...
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My Rainbow Baby
This will be the most difficult post I will ever write. I pray it touches you in some way and ...
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Let’s Talk Boobies, Who-ha’s and Well…
I learned in a quick hurry that your body is no longer your own after a baby. You are now ...
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Bringing Baby Home- This Mama’s Journey!
Ahh the day you have been waiting for. To bring your wee lil babe home and begin the greatest adventure ...
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D Day! AKA Delivery.
You have your bag packed, birth plan in hand, hubby has camera and his overnight bag, now waiting on baby! ...
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The Birth of a Blog
While I was pregnant there were so many resources it would make your head spin! Everything from apps to books ...
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