How to Connect with Your Mom Over Time and Distance
How do you connect with your mom once you’re all grown up with a busy family of your own? (I’m still waiting to feel grown…
Facing Rejection
How can a mom handle her own issues with grace and be an example to her children? Rejection. Harsh word, isn’t it? Even harsher is…
Eating Disorders and Body Image
In early childhood, I was a tad bit chubby. Some people pointed out that it was baby fat. Others felt they were doing me a…
How Does Foster Care Affect Your Children?
(Editor’s Note: In November, during National Adoption Awareness Month, MomLife Today enjoys having Adoptive and Foster moms share their hearts with you. Meet Jami Kaeb, we…
Autism and the Pumpkin Patch and the Park (aka, Why Friends are Awesome)
The other day, Rachel and my other daughter had a day off of school, so I had the brilliant idea to take them to a…
Private Pain
A few weeks ago, I had lunch with a friend who told me a very sad story. Her married daughter and son-in-law have been communicating passionately…
Endurance
Control is an illusion. Health is rarely appreciated until it is gone. There is little hospitality involved in a hospital stay. And yesterday was one…
How to Help a Grieving Friend
Having been through grief so recently (or rather still in it), I have the hindsight of knowing what was helpful and what was not. As…
Little Kids and a Lonely Mom
Want to know something that’s surprised me about motherhood? Isolation. I used to arrive home from my 40-hours-a-week in the workplace to welcomed silence. Now,…
Intentional Friendships
A few months ago, I was blessed with the opportunity to speak to a group of women who are dear to my heart. The Heart and…