If my belief is correct and we model what we expect to see from our children…then the little girl next to me in line at the grocery store is going to be such a JERK when she gets older. 
Right now she is perfectly wonderful.  Everything a child should be…curious, energetic, playful and adorable.  Her mother [...]

Why are your clothes all over the floor?  Pick up your trash! What is your bike doing in the front yard?  Stop picking on your brother!  Get your wet butt off my couch! Don’t scratch that, it’ll spread!
Ahhhh, the sounds of summer…
Really, we’re only into the second week of vacation here and its feeling like [...]

I remember myself as a pretty normal child. I was always singing, dancing, cracking jokes for my classmates, forgetting stuff, trashing my room, losing my homework and getting into trouble.
I sucked at school…not because I wasn’t smart, but because I was forced to focus on boring stuff and I didn’t get graded on having a [...]

It’s no secret that I have an appreciation for good wine and cold beer, particularly when I am socializing or unwinding from an especially trying day. This practice has never been a great concern for me because I know my limits and listen to them…that is until recently when all the news started taking on [...]

My family has just returned from a vacation to Disney and we had the best time of all in the park where we “forgot” the backpack of life support!
If you’ve ever spent a day at an amusement park, you have probably seen the families with literally CARGO LOADS of supplies trying to decide who will [...]

I get chills down my spine every time I hear another horrific story about a young person being beaten or tortured or killed by another young person. It’s disgusting! And then we hear the reporter or the police or the attorneys talking about the cause of the brutality…”technology”, they say. It’s Texting, [...]

It struck me not to long ago, that I am in complete control of every outcome I experience in life.
I used to believe that everything was someone else’s fault…that if something went wrong, I could easily find someone to blame to take the “fault” off of myself thereby making the situation better.  But the funniest [...]

It’s a snow day here in Pa…everything outside is fluffy and white…the kids are home from school…my husband is working on his laptop in the Dining room…and I am running around the house like a nut trying to tidy up all those once little projects that after days (or weeks) of neglect, have now turned [...]

At a recent training I attended, the class had an opportunity to sit on the floor and engage in an impromptu conversation with the instructor which had nothing to do with the course material we had been working on.  We discussed many topics including a training course that some of the women had attended.  I forget the name, but it centered on how to [...]

“Don’t forget your saxophone!”…”Put your shoes on!”…”Zip up your coat!”…”Don’t talk with your mouth full!”…”Do you have your homework?”…”Meet me at the car”…”When will you be home?”
What delightful conversations we have with our families these days.
When I ask why there is so little time for valuable conversation and family time, I usually hear the excuse [...]