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In this heart wrenching post, a bio and adoptive mom answers every parent’s question. Do you love your adopted child as much as your biological one? Recently on a Facebook post I received the following comment. I find it difficult to get past the distinctions in your children: my daughter, my grandson (those ones are really yours), my adopted daughter,… Read More
Does anyone else feel like Mother’s Day is the hardest holiday? Especially if you’re the mom! Torn between being celebrated and honoring your own mother if she’s still alive, sometimes Mother’s Day can be a day of conflict. I celebrated my first Mother’s Day 27 years ago. I know it seems like a cliche, but the years have flown by… Read More
Maybe this Mother’s Day you’re feeling a little sentimental like me, or searching for a purpose in those sleepless nights and endless days of diapers and tantrums. Could it be that the teenage years are wearing thin and you’re wondering if anything you’re doing really matters? Totally unprepared for motherhood 27 years ago, I dove in and have been swimming upstream… Read More
Disclosure: The post First Mothers Day Gift Basket was sponsored by Expressionery.com but all opinions expressed are my own. I remember my first Mother’s Day like it was yesterday……only it wasn’t. It was 27 years ago. I was madly in love with this precious bundle of dainty cuteness named Rachel Faith. I had no idea what I was doing in my newfound… Read More
As I watched my oldest daughter’s journey to motherhood I was grateful to play an active part in her life and now in my precious grandson’s life. From the very beginning Rachel was full of questions and transparency. Did it take you long to get pregnant? Did you have morning sickness when you were pregnant with me? When did you get… Read More
A seasoned mom of five shares the five life transforming things she wish she had known as a young mom embracing new motherhood. I am walking through a season of life that is new and exciting yet also terrifying. I am no longer “merely” a stay at home mom. I am a work from home, homeschooling mom of teenagers. I… Read More
When I was pregnant with my first child my husband Tim and I made some parenting decisions that still affect our family today. We wanted to parent our children in such a way that by the time they were teenagers they would be respectful young adults with an open relationship with us that would be built on trust and… Read More
For the last three years I have traveled to Orlando, FL, to meet up with some amazing women who are adoptive and foster moms. These women are uniquely drawn together through the bond of parenting wounded children. Children with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD, and for many of our kids, just one of their diagnoses) is unlike any other parenting… Read More
DecoArt sponsored our Google+ Live Hangouts on Air at Crafty Hangouts and sent all of us a few products to have fun with. (You can watch my video here.) I’ve shared before about our special plate used to celebrate special days in our family. When DecoArt included glass chalkboard paint in our package I was excited to give it a try…. Read More