To my son's 2nd-grade teacher,
I promise I had good intentions; I really did! I bought workbooks, flashcards and took multiple trips to the library to check out reading books. I had plans to work a little every day with my...
The phone call came in June, about 2 weeks after I had accepted a full time teaching job. We had been matched with a birth-mother in Virginia Beach, VA. She was due in September, about 6 weeks into the...
The hardest job I'll ever love. Isn't really a job at all.
It's Parenthood.
During the light of the day, we are really something.
The hustle and bustle begins swiftly, I'm usually jolted awake by the pitter patter of tiny feet on...
It was June of 2012. Hot. The weather in South Texas rarely changes. Windy, sunny, rains occasionally. One thing you can almost depend on is the weather here. I was a little over 5 months pregnant and working part-time.
I...
Seven years ago, in a bathroom stall of the four-diamond hotel where I worked as a department head, I learned I was pregnant. Yes, very glamorous, I know!
In those days, I was a workaholic. Twelve to fourteen hour days...
October 24th, 2012, the day of his in-utero anatomy scan, was the day we learned our 20-week son would not survive. The day we got the news.
And now. October 15, 2016. The third year I memorialize my first baby, my...
I think I’m what some would describe as one of those “Hot Mess” Moms.
Case in point:
I’m always late. To my credit, sometimes my kids need to poop right as we are leaving the house, and that’s not really my...
I have yet to meet a Unicorn Parent. A parent so perfect and magical, they shine like rainbows and shower down glitter wherever they go. These parents effortlessly float from soccer practice to gymnastics to dinner without having to...
I've always heard about the wisdom that can come from the mouths of kids. I've not had much experience with that personally, but am starting to get a glimpse now that my son is talking more.
When he was a...
Master Multitaskers
Dolly Parton had it right way back in 1980 - tumble out of bed and pour myself some ambition. It's how I get my world rolling every morning. First, with a GIANT cup of coffee.
The alarm goes off...
Life In Coastal Bend
Fall In The Coastal Bend 2024
Fall is here and the Coastal Bend is full of fun fall activities for all ages! From pumpkin patches to haunted houses, trunk or...
