Favorite Things, Finished Thoughts

A Sweet Lesson in Giving Back

Our family at our 2016 Lemonade Stand to benefit Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation.

Post Updated 5/2019 with current stand information. I couldn’t wait to have kids that were old enough to sell lemonade at a lemonade stand. It is one of those mom-dreams, like catching fire flies and cloud gazing, that I would fantasize about when imagining life with kids.  Does it get any better? And then one day as I was feeding…

Read More

Finished Thoughts

Being Enough, On Mother’s Day and Always

How to be enough as a Mother, on Mother's Day and always.

Motherhood.   Wow, what a rush, huh?! An endless cycle of need and want and guilt and never feeling like you’re enough.     Yesterday evening I found myself in the Emergency Department, tapping my toe waiting on the doctor who said “give me a few minutes,” to come back and sew up my middle daughter’s lip. (I always knew…

Read More