Family is a major part of your happiness and the family room is where you spend time with them. Those whom you love the most (and who probably drive you crazy at times), are the same individuals you can walk around in your pj’s without your teeth brushed, no make up and crazy hair. You [...]

Balancing life seems to be the key to happiness. I often think of a presentation I saw years ago where a wagon wheel was drawn with five spokes. Each spoke represents an area of your life. The five spokes were: 1. Finances—Your income, debt, ability to budget, save, and invest. 2. Faith—How is your spiritual [...]

One of my favorite Christmas traditions is giving each member of the family an ornament that represents their year. We have dinosaurs, tractors, and trains representing a small child’s current obsession—ornaments that represent something new they learned. We have simple pictures hung of them when we couldn’t afford to buy them ornaments. I love when [...]

Just a few thing we are grateful for: Joshua(age 6)is grateful for: pumpkin pie, family, school, apartment, turkey, friends, vacation from school, toys, flowers, bike, holidays, pizza, grandma & grandpas, aunts & uncles, cousins, food, bed, scientist, fish, cartoons, library, candy, and nature. Nathaniel (age 5) is grateful for: Mom, Dad, Joshua, Maddie, Reece, Miles, [...]

Time is something you can never get back and nothing makes this clearer then the death of someone you love. For me it is an uncle I haven’t seen since my wedding over 7 years ago. As a child I always thought of him as the fun uncle. He had the best smile and laugh. [...]

I like to be in control—to have a plan all laid out and followed exactly. This at times makes it hard to trust the Lord. With the Lord, I can’t be in control. I have to submit my will and I can’t plan what I don’t understand.  The way I planned out my life is [...]

Having a negative attitude does not just hurt us, but it hurts those around us. Sometimes it hurts those we love the most—a sad lesson I learned recently. My attitude about moving to Colorado to a small apartment was very negative upon arrival. I was angry about our current situation. I was careful not to [...]

I did something yesterday that I have never done before. I called my husband at work and asked him to come home because I couldn’t deal with my children anymore. What brought me to this point? My oldest son (6 years old) has decided on multiple Sundays lately that he was not going to church. He [...]

I’ve been pondering a lot on the life of my Grandmother. I used to wonder how she could stand just being home never traveling or going to fancy restaurants or plays. I wondered how she was so content. All she wanted was to be a wife and mother. She found so much joy in her [...]

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 [...]