Thankful for: Saturday Edition

Thankful for: Saturday Edition

Saturdays at our house start off the same way every week: TV for the kids, husband/dad pumping iron, while I grab a few quiet minutes in my office before making chocolate chip pancakes for the girls. Today: no different. Since I love Saturdays, it’s fun that I...
100 Women in a Room: HEELS Bootcamp

100 Women in a Room: HEELS Bootcamp

I walk up the steps to sign in to the event, greeted friendly faces. Everything is ready: name tags, a table of giveaways, a speaker’s table, the podium and microphones. By the time my daughter and I arrive, the room is almost full. Women are greeting each...

Loss and Rebirth

Today marks three years since my mother-in-law’s death. In the three years since we lost her (too early), we’ve watched our girls grow, and we moved — for the first time in our married life — to live near family. I still think of her nearly every day. We...
Abandoned or Postponed?

Abandoned or Postponed?

My oldest daughter is turning ten next Sunday. This decade, my first decade as a mother, has passed impossibly fast. Earlier this year, I had a big idea. I planned to write a book for my daughter as a gift for her birthday. She is a voracious reader and she loves to...
100 Women in a Room: HEELS Bootcamp

Little Girl Dreams

I’m driving in the car with my daughters. We’re talking about our birthdays later this year. My oldest daughter will be turning ten just months after I turn forty. Our thirty year age gap makes it easy for all three of my girls to remember my age. “Cami is nine so...