Searching for balance

Before I had children, I thought I knew a lot of things. It seemed obvious to me that my priorities should be: God first, husband second, children third. But once my kids were born I learned that life isn’t always so cut and dried. It never crossed my mind B.C. (before children) that my kids…

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Ever feel like you are in mommy solitary confinement?

All I’ve ever wanted my entire life was to be a mother. I’ve always been a big book nerd, reading and writing constantly and in one of my very first journals I kept as a young teenager, I wrote about how much I looked forward to being a mother one day, and the type of…

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Multiple Personalities

When I was growing up I thought my mother had multiple personalities. I was ready to have her committed. The same rules never applied to my siblings and I and she literally seemed like a different person when she dealt with each of us. With my oldest brother, she was laid back and fun, easy,…

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