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IN A WORD...

If you could use one word to describe the most important thing you want to teach your kids, what would that word be?

A tribute to moms

The 2013 Moms of the Year gallery features photos of moms placed by their proud families to celebrate Mother's Day.

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Living in the Middle Lands

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

So many words

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!

My old advice to a new mom




Sometimes it's tricky being a mom

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

Six lessons for photos

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

To speak or to tweet, that is the question

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.

Don't 'untag' yourself from your life

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

Is it hot in here?

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

What does a jelly face have to do with a neuron?

When my kids were little and I was new to this stay-at-home gig, there were many moments when I felt inadequate in what I was doing, as well as inferior to others

Did I really hit reply?!

Recently I received an email that really frustrated me. In fact, I felt angry, confused and agitated; the email caused me to question the level of trust I had in a particular situation.