I am a brooder. Yesterday morning in the mad rush to get Gus out the door for preschool my husband dug through Gus’ Lightning McQueen backpack. Which had been abandoned in the corner since he got home on Friday.   Oh, it was library day!   And oh, he had to collect leaves to bring […]

Raising little kids is much too hard to do alone. Much.   In order to survive all of the tantrums and growing pains, I need my husband, my sisters, my mother, and more and more, my friends. My husband and I are blessed to be part of a wonderful group of Catholic families.   We’ve […]

**Quick Note**  My husband and I use this PRINTABLE AGENDA, which allows us to reconnect in a POWERFUL way.  Get it here: Friday will mark my 5 year wedding anniversary.   5 years.   5 years seems like both a considerable amount of time and nothing at all. In 5 years we went from 2 […]

I spent a lot of years (basically my 20’s) angry that I wasn’t married and irritated with married people in general.  Especially married women. Married women seemed so smug.   Sure, they’d say things like, “marriage is tough” and “I get so mad at my husband when he…” But it just sounded patronizing especially when […]