This “new normal.” It’s wearing and exhausting. The racial tension and the desperation for change in our country feels endless. What the world needs now:: more friendship, more love and support and more reasons to smile. Friendship According to The Golden Girls I found all that in The Golden Girls. I’ve been watching a lot […]
After having my second baby in 2016, I distinctly remember a feeling I had that was so incredibly different the second time around. We would introduce people to our little boy, or speak with someone on the phone and the questions would come up… “How’s the baby?” “How is he sleeping?” But very rarely, and […]
When was your last meaningful instance of human connection? When was the last time you actually spoke to somebody on the phone instead of a text? When did you last have a meaningful conversation where you spoke into the phone, the other person responded and you continued this back and forth banter for some time? […]
August 1 is National Girlfriends Day:: a day set aside to celebrate the joy of female friendship. Who knew this was a thing? I’ll be very honest; I never knew there was a day that celebrated friendships – girl friendships, until I agreed to write this blog post. Now, I think National Girlfriends Day should […]
The other day, I had an astonishing realization. Since moving to Houston in July 2017, I have made many more older female friends. I don’t know if this is a side effect of being a trophy wife available during the day or what, but at 45 and with young kids {and youthful personality, I hope}, I […]
I sat on the rickety porch steps outside of the Girl Scout cottage, waiting for my daughter Abby and her troop to finish their meeting. Through the small window in the front of the house, I could see Abby and her friends sitting together on the tattered rug, their animated voices carried out, and they […]
Do you ever get through part of the year and think, wow that really sucked? Fall was like that for us. We started the season finding out that we were pregnant with our third baby – the highest of highs, of course, and something we were extremely grateful for. However, it quickly went downhill from […]
The group text suddenly grew quieter and quieter. Our usual never-ending thread went from solving the world’s parenting and relationship problems to one word responses. I knew deep in my heart that something was not right, and indeed my gut feeling was spot on. One group member took up an issue with me and to […]
“Ahhh my kids too!” “Oh my gosh, I thought I was the only one!” “Stop; how did that even happen??” “I cannot even with my husband right now either!” OK, that last one was me, but the rest were all things my friends said one night at a thrown-together neighborhood party. Summer is long guys, […]
As I write this, a mom in one of my online moms groups is venting about her son’s open heart procedure coming up later this month. Another is complaining about her mother in law {oh wait, that was me} and a dozen others are writing about their major {or minor} life issues going on. I […]
