? my SUMMER MOTHER MORNING BASKET ? books and resources I am using to continue my growth as an adult

One of my biggest hobbies, okay, actually, my biggest hobby, is blogging. Because I don’t really know very many bloggers in my real face-to-face life and because I enjoy talking blogging I thought for the next while I would blog about blogging. It’s like writers who write about writing, though somehow weirder. Or maybe it’s…

I submitted this article as a guest post submission to a blog awhile ago and it didn’t get chosen so I thought instead of just tossing it I would share it here. We just got off the phone from a call we had been dreading might come, our adoption agency told us they would no…

Lack of access to clean water and sanitation kills children at a rate equivalent of a jumbo jet crashing every four hours. An American taking a five-minute shower uses more water than the average person in a developing country slum uses for an entire day. More than 3.4 million people die each year from water,…

We all know kids copy their parents in everything they do. Sometimes we see them copying in ways that warm our hearts (like this photo I captured earlier in the year) and sometimes it is in ways/areas we wish they wouldn’t. Raeca’s thing lately is sitting and my computer and saying she is “busy” or “writing…