I love to laugh.  It’s my favorite past time.  It is good for the soul. I laugh when I’m happy, scared, nervous or on a terrifying amusement park ride. My husband and children find me in a crowd listening for my laugh. My brother’s friend once told him how much he liked being around me…

It’s interesting to me that we so rarely give ourselves the permission to be human.  Too often we feel we’re not enough, or that we’re too much. We never do enough, get enough done or balance our lives as well as we think we should.   I was having a conversation today about guilt and what…

I have mentioned previously that I have five (biological) children.  I’ve been pregnant five times, had morning sickness, cravings, braxton hicks, and weight gain to name a few, and given birth, did I say, five times.   It’s my claim to fame, my excuse for my mom bod, and who/what I blame most any physical or…

My life has rarely been stable geographically. I attended twelve different schools by the time I graduated high school.  I traveled the country, and the world for a couple years before I got married at 22, and we moved fairly often. We changed homes or states numerous times in our nearly 21 years of marriage.  …