After a day of driving and fighting the tears that would surface as we drove further from home I walked into our apartment (the place we would now call home) and I have to admit I would of sat down and cried if it wasn’t for the fact I had men showing up to help [...]

I always thought I would be a patient, understanding, and calm mother. And I was … until I had children. For example, a child comes into the room complaining about how unfair life is and rather then showing patience and understanding, I immediately snap at the poor child. Some days I feel that I should [...]

It has taken me a while but I’m starting to learn that whenever I think everything is hunky-dory in the world, I should check with my wife, because it is probably not. That whole Mars and Venus thing – with women speaking a different language than men – my wife tried to explain it to [...]

I’m still reading Stephen R. Covey’s book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families and I’m loving every page. This book has talked a lot about loving unconditionally and I wanted to share his list of 5 ways you can show your love. 1. Empathizing: listening with your own heart to another’s heart. 2. Sharing [...]

Since before I was married, I’ve always said that it would be a rule with my family that we have dinner together every night. I always imagined I would be fighting to get my children to join us at the table. I was wrong. My husband has worked many evenings missing dinner (and now misses [...]

As a kid Valentine’s day is all about candy. A little bit older and it’s giggling, whispering, and pointing. In high school, girls want to feel special and boys are clueless. And as a single adult you just want it to be over. I’ve never cared that much about Valentines day. I still don’t. But [...]

“You will always be a victim until you forgive”, declares Stephen R. Covey in his book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families. What a statement. It’s true no matter what somebody did to hurt you as long as you are angry you hurt yourself and your relationships with those around you. This often has [...]

I have a confession. My biggest fear is that I will fail as a parent. That I will lose my children, not to death, but to bad friends, drugs, drinking, or some unknown evil that could come between us. Because of this fear I read a lot of books about family, parenting, relationships, etc. I [...]

My Grandmother just passed away. It was no surprise, she had been ill for a while. I had visited her often and always wondered if this would be the last time we spoke in this life. I thought I had told her everything I needed to. I had made sure she knew that I loved [...]

For my new job I get to go into a variety of areas in Denver with a wide variety of people. Some areas are quite run down with some scary looking people while others are very fancy and expensive looking. At times I feel very much like a minority and wonder how people will react [...]