Relationships

My husband and I have a rule in our house; we don’t fight in front of the kids. We have this for several reasons. One, we’d like our kids to see us disagree and work through our differences in a respectful and mature manner rather than screaming at one another. We feel that this sets […] More

For better or worse, in sickness and health, ‘til death do we part; the beautiful, sacred and very important words we speak when we wed. My husband and I recently celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary, and we talked about these words. We talked about or betters (four beautiful kids, our careers, our life) and our […] More

Anytime you feel the need to bring home a little blue box from Tiffany’s for your beautiful wife is considered an important relationship splurge. If you are more budget-oriented, a Snickers bar has almost the exact same effect as the Tiffany’s box (trust me, I’m a woman and I have the same reaction to both […] More

“Let’s have another!” There; end of story. Okay, so I’m kidding. But really, four kids later, I should have kept my mouth shut about once our first daughter was born. I was a new mom, my husband a new dad. We were young and we were in love and we were just so happy to […] More

“It was a fabulous day, darling,” I said with a bright smile and a kiss when my husband walked through the garage door yesterday after a long day in the office, pushing thoughts of teddy bears floating in poop-filled toilets, dirty diapers and the image of my 1-year-old son slamming a dump truck into the […] More

First dates are exciting, awkward, exciting, fun, horrible and just plain hilarious. Hopefully they’re more exciting and fun than anything else, but those of us not dating do love to hear about your hilarious and awkward and awful first dates. It reminds us why we are happy to be married and have kids and not […] More

Friends are people that become your family. They are your chosen few. They are the people that would do anything for you and anything with you at the drop of a hat; they are the people you never doubt. You call say anything to them and know that they’re not going to judge you behind […] More

There is something so amazing about being in love with someone when it is right. If you’re not in love or if you’re not sure you are in love, let me give you a blindingly obvious piece of advice that most people don’t realize until they are really with the person they are meant to […] More

If you are like me, you receive text messages and read them before promptly forgetting to respond. I do this all the time. I get a text at a red light, read it and then have to drive off so I put my phone down. I get a text standing in line at the store, […] More

Getting married is something really amazing when you wait for the right person. When people told me that I was too young to get married, I ignored them and I’m glad I did. I was 19 when my high school sweetheart proposed to me, and we waited two years until we were done with college […] More

Before text messages were possible, we had to –  gulp – talk on the phone. It was a horrible, awful time in the lives of so many. Some of us grew up during a time in which we did not even have cell phones. That meant we had to take this thing that was attached […] More

The friend zone; it’s the worst. Some people like to say that it’s impossible for men and women to be friends unless one of them is unattractive since men cannot be friendly with attractive women without wanting them in some way. Then there are other men who disagree, saying that they aren’t animals and they […] More