Addiction Kills The Family Before It Kills the Addicted

Addiction is a thief and a liar. It comes to steal, kill, and destroy and is a deep dark demon that holds the addicted in its grasp as a puppetmaster, pulling the strings and controlling everything in its grasp. There is a strong and destructive stigma around addiction and those who succumb to its power …

The First Day of School Preparation You Forgot…

You have bought the cute backpack, the matching lunchbox, and your child’s closet is full of new clothes you got a heck of a deal on. You filled out ALL the school forms, signed them, forgot where they were, then filled them out again. You have filled your mind with all kinds of new ideas …

The Solution to Every Problem is YOU

Oh how we love to dish about our problems, analyze them, google them, call our best friend to complain about them…but what actual action do we take to do something about them? We wait…eternally…for someone else to change…to finally be appreciated, for our kids to finally listen, for our mothers to finally stop criticizing our …

“Sometimes we make mistakes and that’s ok.” Emmy Brown, age 3

So this is my first blog post and I have no idea what I’m doing. I’ve tried a lot of things in my life…some have worked, some haven’t, but somehow I managed to live through the failures and still get up every morning and make my kids breakfast. One particular morning, Emmy wanted a bowl …