Inspiration

Watching as your children hurt is one of the most awful things any parent can encounter. Hearing your child come home and say that no one will play with him or her on the playground or that someone won’t be their friend is hard. You want to go handle that situation right away, but it’s […] More

We all have a pet peeve, and it might be similar to that of others and it might not. It drives me nuts when my kids talk to me from the back seat of the car wearing their headphones with their music and/or movies turned up so it actually requires them to SCREAM at me. […] More

I say quite often that it’s typically the smallest acts of kindness that make the biggest impact. It’s the smile when you’re having a bad day. It’s a compliment when you’re feeling less than accomplished. It’s the sweet gesture that required some thought and action on the part of someone else that can always make […] More

Education is the most important gift you can ever provide yourself. Learning is not something that we are forced to do for reasons unknown. We might not see it that way as children since we’d likely much rather be doing anything else – playing, sleeping, eating… As adults, however, it’s much easier to see why […] More

It’s like I say to my husband all the time, some of the best things in life are free. He then makes some offhand comment about how he will remember that the next time he’s going to get me something inside a little blue box and he’ll draw me a picture instead – he’s so […] More

Social workers are often painted in a bad light. It’s these people who work tireless hours protecting children from people who are hurting them. Sure, sometimes a child slips through the cracks or a parent who loves their kids unconditionally loses a child because of one incident of poor judgment; social workers are not perfect. […] More

Unless you’ve lived with someone who is stationed away from home, it’s difficult to understand just what these husbands and wives go through as one of them is forced to live somewhere other than home with their families for their job. It cannot be easy. As someone who has never been a military wife or […] More

Learning CPR is one of those things we should all be required. We are not, however, required to learn to get through life but some of us are required to learn for certain things. Many professionals must learn the art of CPR. I had to learn several years ago to become a certified Pop Warner […] More

Healthy body image; what’s that? I don’t think most of us have a really great idea of what it means to have a healthy body image, and I’ll tell you why. We are all too concerned with what’s right, wrong and imperfect that we forget that as long as we are healthy, we are pretty […] More

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is a pretty cool guy, and he really proved that on Easter. After leaving the gym he noticed a group of young men following behind his truck screaming and calling his name. The Rock debated whether or not to stop, ultimately making the decision to get out of his truck and […] More

For so many dog owners, the simple act of keeping their own dogs and cats clean is a bit much. They’re so dirty all the time, especially when you have to walk them on a rainy day or when they find a really spectacular dirt pile in which to play. But for one man, the […] More

Being a brother is a pretty rewarding job. I mean, I assume it is. I’m not a brother. I’m a sister. I have a brother and I assume that he must love his job as my younger brother, but I could be wrong. For an 8-year-old boy named Noah and his younger brother Lucas, this […] More