Aug 9, 2018 | faith, inspiration, Relationship Clutter, Teens, Uncategorized, Young Adults
HOW do you release your young adult kids to grow up into the people God designed them to be? HOW do you allow them to launch without controlling their every move? Is it just me and my anxiety-driven, Enneagram 6- catastrophizing mindset that is struggling with this?...
May 31, 2018 | Clutter, faith, Relationship Clutter, Teens, Young Adults
Cory’s senior year, aka… the LONGEST year of my life, has simply flown by. I know, I know. That’s an oxymoron, but it’s TRUE. And I know I’m not alone in feeling this way, as every mom would agree. The days are long, but the years are short. Cory and I have been...
Apr 12, 2018 | Clutter, Declutter, inspiration
Cory, my 18-year- old son, was not feeling well. Within minutes it turned into full-blown food poisoning. And when I say full-blown, well… you get the picture. When things finally began to calm down he was able to explain what he had eaten. He had found a bottle of...
Nov 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
So it’s been a while since I’ve written because I basically fell into a post football season stupor and am just now beginning to emerge and function in the world like a real person. …I totally borrowed that opening line from one of my favorite bloggers — only...
Aug 18, 2017 | faith, inspiration, Uncategorized
I sat across the table from my beautiful daughter Jessica, trying to speak past the lump in my throat. The restaurant in Southern California was noisy and crowded, but I was determined to get the words out. So much had happened in the past year and this moment was the...