Love + Relationships

I like to keep a tidy house. I have two little people and a dog running around, so it's hardly ever all REEEEALLY clean at the same time, but I do my best to keep it at least "picked...

"I could never foster, it's too heartbreaking. I don't know how you do it." These are statements that I hear almost daily. Lately, I couldn't agree with them more. When I hear this I often want to scream back "I DON'T...

Dear Working Mom, Remember what is was like to have a career without kids? Ha ha, me neither. *rubs temples I wish I could say we’re #TooBlessedToBeStressed, but goodness, there is so.much.stress. Why? Because we’re simultaneously greasing the wheels of the world and raising...

On July 5th, sixteen years ago, my husband and I stood at the front of my parent's church surrounded by family and friends and publicly proclaimed our commitment to one another. I had grand visions of what our wedding...

In the recent 2016 movie, Bad Moms, Amy Mitchell reflects on her troubled marriage, recalling that she and her husband had married so young, that they never really got to have the usually carefree period people typically enjoy in...

I've written a blog over how to survive in the midst of divorce... but son of a nutcracker how in the WORLD do you survive after divorce? There wasn't enough chocolate in the world to help me with my...

Ladies, let me tell you right now there are not just three stages in pregnancy, a.k.a. three trimesters. I think there are at least nine, and no one really talks about these stages. But these right here are the...

I've watched the movies. So, once I got engaged, I knew everything was supposed to be blissful and easy. But marriage is not like that. Especially for two people mostly raised as only children.  We both were, and still are,perfectionists to a...

When I searched the word "resolution" on Merriam-Webster's website, this is what it said; resolution: the act of finding an answer or solution to a conflict, problem, etc. As a mom, I solve problems every day.  I find a lost shoe...

A few years ago we would only share this with our closest friends: we don't celebrate Christmas. We eased our families into our decision not to participate in the tradition. I still decorated for the first couple of years of...

Last weekend, my husband and I got to load up all four of our kiddos, drop them off at their grandparents house and go away by ourselves for the entire weekend.  It was AWESOME!  Honestly, it could not have...

Being a one car family in Oklahoma City is not an easy task. At the heart of the highways, we live in an area where car is king and sidewalks are seemingly non-existent. So WHY would anyone choose this option?...