• The day we had been waiting for

    Not to long ago we had another adoption anniversary, our first match visit. This day has been hard for me for a few years now. I remember every detail. I remember all the smiles. I remember all the excitement. Who would have thought, six months later it would be over. We left on a Friday…

  • Recovery

    This past week I had to have a surgery to improve my quality of life. But with a surgery comes recovery. All surgery recoveries differ one to another and I will be down six to eight weeks. Hearing that and accepting this has been the hardest thing. I am not the type of person who…

  • Something New

    How hard is it for us as a society to try something new? I believe the older we get the less likely we will try or do new things. We become pretty set in our ways. I got to experience something new this past weekend. We became a new family into another sport. Our youngest…

  • Mind Over Heart

    We received an email a couple weeks ago about updating over adoption home study for the next couple years. I brought this to my husband and we knew we needed to discuss this very important decision. We needed to weigh out all the options of keeping it up or letting it go. Wasn’t going to…

  • The Day We Met

    4 years ago… today. Hard to believe it has already been that long. As we all know time goes by quickly. We always have said in our home it is on hyper speed here with our family. Our eldest just finishing their second year of college and the youngest will complete their Junior year of…

  • Mother’s Day, so what!

    Growing up I was so looking forward to celebrating Mother’s Day as a Mom. I had so many exceptations of what this day would look like. Breakfast in bed. Kids running and jumping on my bed giving me hugs and kisses. Just love and adoration. The reality of this day is nothing like I dreamed.…

  • Seasons

    I heard someone say once ‘don’t waste the season you are in’. It got me thinking what season am I even in? When you look at your life we go through many seasons. Childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, marriage, parenting, empty nesting, and retirement. For me, I am currently in the season of parenting. What a…

  • Family Member or Housemate

    For the past couple months our almost 19 year-old has been pushing boundaries. My husband and I have had many conversations lately about the best course of action. Yesterday things had boiled over to where we had to deliver an ultimatum. We asked our child to leave the house while they were in a fit…

  • Resentment

    Resentment is like a cancer! The majority of us know how cancer goes. It’s a disease that starts out microscopically, as a single-mutated cell. Then the cells begin dividing and multiplying. It grows steadily. Until it consumes a body leading to death. I believe resentment to be very similar. Let me try to explain it…

  • Backlash

    The past couple months have been a strain to say the least when it comes to parenting. One child on the way to making better decisions from their almost year long of putting themselves on a bad path. The other child crashing… What’s a parent to do? It’s like a flip flop, one child to…