I've always been a fan of journaling. I have been journaling off and on since I was eight years old. My writing style in my journals has always been as if I'm writing to a friend. I was experiencing a lot of stress and anxiety a few months ago and my typical journaling style wasn't helping the way ...
How to Raise Children with Big Personalities?
My children have very big personalities. I'm sure most parents feel this way. I like to blame that on my husband because I think he has a big personality himself. But the truth is I too have a big personality. I just hide it more than him. As a mother, I don't know how to find the line between ...
Internet Toxicity
I am an avid content consumer. I look into everything. I deep dive into people's YouTube pages, Instagram accounts, Twitter pages, basically anything I can in order to learn more about people who are currently peaking my interest. Over the last few years I feel people have gotten more cruel, ...
Parenting a Child with a Language Disorder
When my oldest daughter was first born she had a lot of complications and ended up spending 28 days in the NICU (you can read her birth story here). Based on her birth we knew there had been some amount of trauma to the brain, we just didn't know how much. Luckily, our daughter has mainly had a hard ...
Why You Should Enjoy Hard Times in Life
The last almost two years of my life felt very transitional for me. My husband and I hadn't lived in a place that we knew was a more permanent residence since March of 2019. We, just two weeks ago, moved into our first home, and even that is still taking time to feel like home. Our last residence I ...
What Turns a House into a Home
The thing I was most excited for this year was to move into our first house. There were many nights that I couldn't sleep because I was too excited about our house. There was so much excitement and anticipation that went into the process of building a home. It was a very fun time of life to have. It ...