Well, we made it to the last day of school!  I remember when I took the first day of school photo last August, I was thinking, "This year is going to fly." And it did.

Let me explain...

Parenting is like being on a journey that takes us to unknown lands where we try to find our footing.

It has been said we women use about 20,000 words as well as five tones of voice in any given day. That’s a lot of words, girls!

I find that it's tricky to be a mother to an adult-ish child. Adult-ish-child, how is that for a description?

My dining room has been scrapbook central for a month now.

As our culture communicates more and more through Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and more, it seems to me that we are losing the basic life skill of simply talking to each other.

Over the last few weeks, I’ve spent many hours pouring over thousands of pictures (I really need to improve photo organization).

There is a new night time thing going on in our bedroom and it goes like this, covers on, covers off, covers on, covers off, covers on, covers off, covers on, covers off, and so on until the mornin