What is your legacy? What footsteps are you leaving for your children to walk into? How are you modeling a life well lived for them? Are you? Not sure? Join me starting July 31st, 2017 for, The Empowered Mama Summit, an amazing event bringing over 20 empowered mama experts to discuss issues ranging from living… Read More Are You an Empowered Mama?
Get Me to the Church on Time Today my sister-in-law is getting married to the man that God ordained for her and I couldn’t be happier for them. Marriage, to the right person at the right time, is a gift that keeps on giving. When two people are able to complete and increase one another… Read More Ding-Dong, Wedding Bells are Ringing
The Pool The other day our family, along with some good family friends, ventured out to go swimming at a local hotel’s pool. Since we’ve lived here, and even before that, the pool has welcomed guests. There’s been a very relaxed policy about visitors. So long as you are not rowdy, and purchase food or… Read More When Life Gives You Limóns, Make a Margarita!
About Movement and Momentum The thing about movement is that the momentum it creates grows substantially over time. Take for example a snowball sent down a hill. At first it is as small as the hands that have packed it. Quite quickly however, it picks up more and more snow. Before you know it, you… Read More April Showers Brought May Flowers
When is the last time you gave yourself a shout-out? Like, literally, told someone that you were awesome? When is the last time you hollered from the rooftops that your future is bright? Living Life Out Loud It’s one thing to be proud of your accomplishments, but it’s another to tell someone about them! We… Read More The Future is Bright
Drawing a Blank I am absolutely stumped. I have been sitting at this computer for what seems like hours, starting draft, after draft, after draft, waiting for inspiration. It’s late. I’m tired and I think inspiration is not visiting me tonight. Elizabeth Gilbert would advise that I go upstairs, shower, get dressed, perhaps dab on… Read More What to a Writer is Writer’s Block?
There are Good Parents, and There are Great Parents What kind of parent are you? Would you classify yourself as a ‘good’ parent? Does it depend on the day? On your mood? Or are you perhaps consistently great? The other day I got into a conversation with a fellow mom of many in a… Read More The Best Parent in the World
Growing Pains Life is full of change. Hopefully always change for the better, but change nonetheless. As I grow as a woman, as a wife, as a parent, I realize that there are many things I may have done in the past that now, in hindsight, I think perhaps I could have done better or… Read More It Can Only Go Up From Here
I Said It Today I said, “No”. It took me about four days of hemming and hawing to make my instinctive, “No,” audible to the person who needed to hear it. But it was said. The day of no had arrived. And it was amazing! As a mom, as a wife, as an entrepreneur, sometimes… Read More My Day of No
How can living with tenacity help make your dreams a reality? What can you do, right now, to bring you one step closer to living a life by design? The little boy I wrote this about is now a three-year-old big boy, but he is tenacious as ever! He is ferociously dedicated getting what he wants. He… Read More The Tenacity of a Two-Year-Old