Mental Health and Why You Should See A Therapist
A friend recently stated that a therapist should be assigned to everyone at birth like we assign general practitioners and that has been at the forefront of my brain ever since....
Just two years ago, I was a single gal entering my ninth year of teaching elementary school. Days were consumed by lesson planning and grading papers. On a whim, I joined Match.com and the rest is history. Within a...
With everything going on in today's world, Coronavirus aka COVID-19 has moved to the forefront of everything from televised news, social media, people's health both physically and mentally and just basically has succumbed everything as fast as it has...
As moms, we are constantly under some sort of pressure. Make sure the kids eat healthy, do great in school and excel in an extracurricular. I could go on because surely it doesn’t end just there. However, during this...
This morning as my daughter finished her handwriting assignment, she said, “I’m so proud of myself!” I loved that she said this. She had worked really hard and persevered through some challenges while working on her handwriting and she...
Revisiting a Childhood Classic as a Mom
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the debut of the television classic, Little House of the Prairie. I absolutely loved this show! I always identified with Laura more than any other character....
The Insanity that is the Month of May.
1. Birthdays: Seriously! Is EVERYONE's Birthday in May? One of my children, my niece and 6 of my close friends have birthdays in May. I just can't take another birthday. I mean, I...
A few weeks ago, I was living my normal life. I dropped my baby off at daycare, headed to work and did my normal routine. I work for a local retail store, so some days are better than others....
April 19th, 2010. I can’t believe it was almost three years ago. That was the day I became a MOM. I remember hearing my sweet baby boy cry for the first time, laying eyes on him and immediately understood that...
We are one week down in coronavirus quarantine and I have learned a lot about myself, my family and our fellow man. Here are just a few takeaways.
I sorely underestimated the amount of alcohol we would need. #sendtitos #sendchamps...
2020 has been an unbelievably crazy year. It literally started out with the world on fire, and it seems everything has gone downhill from there. While we have all struggled with the chaos that has been thrown at us...
I wrote this post end of July while I was home with Covid. I think it was day 8. I started to get some energy back and the body aches were gone. Apparently, I only had enough energy to...
My second grader has recently become very interested in reading on her own, even turning down movie time to finish a book she’d been desperate to finish for a while. It has brought me a deep sense of joy...
So it was roughly eight years ago (before it was cool) when I cut the cable. I remember it was early January, I had a Google Chromecast for the downstairs TV, I had a Netflix subscription, a Blue-ray player,...