Six words.
“You have early onset Alzheimer’s Disease.”
It only took six words to immediately and irrevocably change my family’s life.
After almost a year of searching for answers to why my 48-year-old husband was forgetting basic things like what day it...
Sanitizer, toilet paper, paper towels, masks, disinfectant wipes, and a marriage counselor.
These are all of the things I didn't know that I would need in plentiful supply in 2020, yet here we are. When the shutdown of the...
Dude at the gym,
I don't know you
But I love you.
That day, I was on the pectoral fly/ rear delt machine
45 pounds on the rack,
Thinking I was doing great. Schwarzenneger had nothing on me.
And evidently you were just doing rear...
Last year my husband and I had a unique opportunity to go on the vacation of a lifetime. We had two free roundtrip airfare to anywhere in the world! We had all the googly eyes. We were scouring the...
Let me start by stating the obvious - it's hard to make friends as a mom. Can I get a collective "AMEN" to that? For a long time, I didn't have any real-life mom friends. I had some awesome...
Who knew that by letting my guard down I’d be opening the door for what would end up wrecking my world. I knew from the moment we met - in traffic, of all places - that this was a...
My husband and I will have been married for five years on October 22nd. In the blink of an eye, five years came and went. We went from one kid to four. From an apartment to a house. From...
If you catch a glimpse of any ad promoting the popular NBC drama This Is Us, then you’re bound to see images of a beautiful, happy family. Their arms are wrapped around each other, their heads may be thrown...
Mamas, (and dads!) are you looking for a way to make your kids feel extra special and loved this year, without feeling overwhelmed by the task or the cost?
Parenting is hard work and helping your relationship with your little...
Not long ago, my husband told me he had been cheating on me for over a year. At least, that’s all he admitted to doing - I don’t really need to know the full extent of all that had...
"You HAVE to babywear or your child won't learn to bond properly and will never know how to love!"
"Let the baby cry itself to sleep or it won't learn to sleep ever in its entire...
Yesterday was Friday. As I went throughout my day, I counted the number of times someone said (or posted) “It’s FRIDAY” or “Thank God it’s the weekend!”
35 times. 35 times I saw someone celebrating the fact that it is...
Aug. 14 is Military Marriage Day. If you haven't heard of it, you aren't alone. It's the new kid on the block. You know, like those of us in military families often are. The formal celebration with the goal...
A divorce with children can take a long time. In our case, it has now been three anniversaries spent during the pendency of our divorce. Each one opened up new wounds. When I wrote about this last year, it...
In + Around Dayton
Bloom :: An Event for Moms! {2024}
Bloom is an event for new and expecting moms, foster moms, and adoptive moms (recommended for any mom up to toddler age!), and other...
