Motherhood Later in Life: Celebrating Our Joy!

As a mom I feel I need to teach my kids that mom is one person, and one person can't do it all. They are so used to seei... Read more

Ariana Grande's lack of responsibility and sense of entitlement has made the pitfall of not teaching our children self-a... Read more

My new year's resolutions for 2020 are: 1) Continue to be the best mother I can possibly be. 2) Work hard on my new entr... Read more

Since it's Christmas Eve, I would like to share with you a family tradition that we have. When my girls were young, I w... Read more

I've always loved celebrating Christmas with all the traditions attached to it. But when I was nine, my father had a ve... Read more

We've always been told that Christmas is the season of giving and sharing so for this episode, instead of talking to yo... Read more

We participated in this year's Fall Festival -- the girls taking their first crack at entrepreneurship, and I on a dess... Read more

When you make you're making your New Year's resolutions this year, remember: Opportunity is another word for hard work. ... Read more

My girls were exposed to musicals before they were four through Disney productions. I felt that although these were gre... Read more

I am teaching my children to accept that disappointment happens to everyone.No one gets through life without disappointm... Read more

This was the first Day of the Dead we had without my mother. I wanted to put up a shrine on her honor. As I struggled w... Read more

I have always wanted to have four children ever since I was little. But circumstances have forced me to give up on gett... Read more

Adopting new kids into our family is challenging, especially since they have already developed their unique individuali... Read more

So was this Halloween a trick or treat?I have always enjoyed celebrating Halloween but after going through several surge... Read more

Entrepreneurship is out of my confort zone but I dipped my toes into it. Initially things went well until competitors p... Read more

The Christmas spirit is a lot like the Parenthood spirit.  You have to let go and accept that nothing comes out the way ... Read more

When my twins were first gifted an Elf on the Shelf, it was quickly forgotten -- they were creeped out by the idea that... Read more

1. The internal conflict I had as a mom of two toddlers made it difficult for me to accept the complex surgery I had to... Read more

1. I have honest and open conversations with my children so they can come to me when they have to make decisions or at ... Read more

1. I learned that courage is the ability to do something that scares you. 2. I had to be courageous in the face of a h... Read more